URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Submission: On January 02 via api from TR — Scanned from DE

Summary

This website contacted 8 IPs in 2 countries across 4 domains to perform 15 HTTP transactions. The main IP is 52.13.90.168, located in Boardman, United States and belongs to AMAZON-02, US. The main domain is www.helpnetsecurity.com. The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is 627865.
TLS certificate: Issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 on July 16th 2023. Valid for: a year.
This is the only time www.helpnetsecurity.com was scanned on urlscan.io!

urlscan.io Verdict: No classification

Domain & IP information

IP Address AS Autonomous System
6 52.13.90.168 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 2a00:1450:400... 15169 (GOOGLE)
1 99.86.4.9 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 2600:9000:211... 16509 (AMAZON-02)
3 2a00:1450:400... 15169 (GOOGLE)
2 3.160.196.74 16509 (AMAZON-02)
1 18.195.235.189 16509 (AMAZON-02)
15 8
Apex Domain
Subdomains
Transfer
9 helpnetsecurity.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 627865
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
img.helpnetsecurity.com
219 KB
3 gstatic.com
fonts.gstatic.com
47 KB
2 matomo.cloud
cdn.matomo.cloud — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 29507
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
40 KB
1 googleapis.com
fonts.googleapis.com — Cisco Umbrella Rank: 115
1 KB
15 4
Domain Requested by
6 www.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
3 fonts.gstatic.com fonts.googleapis.com
2 img.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud cdn.matomo.cloud
1 cdn.matomo.cloud www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 img2.helpnetsecurity.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
1 fonts.googleapis.com www.helpnetsecurity.com
15 7

This site contains links to these domains. Also see Links.

Domain
twitter.com
www.linkedin.com
www.facebook.com
helpnet.link
Subject Issuer Validity Valid
*.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M01
2023-07-16 -
2024-08-12
a year crt.sh
upload.video.google.com
GTS CA 1C3
2023-11-20 -
2024-02-12
3 months crt.sh
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M01
2023-07-14 -
2024-08-11
a year crt.sh
cdn.matomo.cloud
Amazon RSA 2048 M03
2023-10-27 -
2024-11-23
a year crt.sh
*.gstatic.com
GTS CA 1C3
2023-11-20 -
2024-02-12
3 months crt.sh
img.helpnetsecurity.com
Amazon RSA 2048 M01
2023-07-14 -
2024-08-11
a year crt.sh
*.matomo.cloud
Amazon RSA 2048 M02
2023-06-21 -
2024-07-19
a year crt.sh

This page contains 1 frames:

Primary Page: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Frame ID: 6958300F4768652CC7395817A0B2052E
Requests: 17 HTTP requests in this frame

Screenshot

Page Title

Hackers employ nuanced tactics to evade detection - Help Net Security

Detected technologies

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <link rel=["']stylesheet["'] [^>]+/wp-(?:content|includes)/
  • /wp-(?:content|includes)/

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast (?:WordPress )?SEO plugin v([\d.]+) -

Overall confidence: 100%
Detected patterns
  • <link[^>]* href=[^>]+fonts\.(?:googleapis|google)\.com

Page Statistics

15
Requests

100 %
HTTPS

43 %
IPv6

4
Domains

7
Subdomains

8
IPs

2
Countries

307 kB
Transfer

600 kB
Size

1
Cookies

Redirected requests

There were HTTP redirect chains for the following requests:

15 HTTP transactions

Resource
Path
Size
x-fer
Type
MIME-Type
Primary Request /
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
72 KB
19 KB
Document
General
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.13.90.168 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-13-90-168.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) / PHP/8.0.27
Resource Hash
b66f6d7b79869f41d68d73c2ec422539db3484faf762b61c9a935132d33188fa

Request headers

Upgrade-Insecure-Requests
1
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36
accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9

Response headers

content-encoding
gzip
content-length
18610
content-type
text/html; charset=UTF-8
date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:20 GMT
link
<https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/287008>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json" <https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/?p=287008>; rel=shortlink
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by
PHP/8.0.27
x-ua-compatible
IE=edge
css
fonts.googleapis.com/
18 KB
1 KB
Stylesheet
General
Full URL
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:828::200a Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
ESF /
Resource Hash
dde53fc96d217470fc220747f3deb58f7078ca339b91f2bdcfd6dc244db34b5a
Security Headers
Name Value
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
X-Xss-Protection 0

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:20 GMT
content-encoding
gzip
x-content-type-options
nosniff
cross-origin-resource-policy
cross-origin
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
x-xss-protection
0
last-modified
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:20 GMT
server
ESF
cross-origin-opener-policy
same-origin-allow-popups
x-frame-options
SAMEORIGIN
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
access-control-allow-origin
*
cache-control
private, max-age=86400, stale-while-revalidate=604800
timing-allow-origin
*
link
<https://fonts.gstatic.com>; rel=preconnect; crossorigin
expires
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:20 GMT
style.1702045551.css
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns23/
143 KB
17 KB
Stylesheet
General
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns23/style.1702045551.css?ver=6.4.2
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.13.90.168 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-13-90-168.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
99fd4cd4a0d894d2a091543a27fc500ff5fb05f21ffa2cdc7ab1d6ce96f445c0

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:20 GMT
content-encoding
gzip
last-modified
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:25:51 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
content-type
text/css; charset=utf-8
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
17239
cequence_security-18122023.jpg
img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2023/
73 KB
73 KB
Image
General
Full URL
https://img2.helpnetsecurity.com/posts2023/cequence_security-18122023.jpg
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
99.86.4.9 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
server-99-86-4-9.fra6.r.cloudfront.net
Software
AmazonS3 /
Resource Hash
baca2626de1181847fd75bbf4ed5d2dc6a0fde3b71530bb3eb6c365d5a497437

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:01:08 GMT
x-amz-version-id
nX6hcoN0QCxDMHjTGhCK8DoDgyeeiKrE
via
1.1 c6b364b1181abfafd7a69f210841edca.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
last-modified
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:42:47 GMT
server
AmazonS3
x-amz-cf-pop
FRA6-C1
age
35953
etag
"31f8da4109b4686f5c06700b5d12829e"
x-amz-server-side-encryption
AES256
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
content-type
image/jpeg
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
74302
x-amz-cf-id
_8byQqZRsoA-9oxagKTiBvOGvXVUKXY6CHxX4kyhBc1D9nJyHM94CA==
ads.dist.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns23/assets/js/
236 B
387 B
Script
General
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/themes/hns23/assets/js/ads.dist.js?ver=6.4.2
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.13.90.168 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-13-90-168.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
166432cf26cb865bf0f1fbf25501d16871d19686bc018d426e59c23ffd8087b6

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:20 GMT
content-encoding
gzip
last-modified
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:25:53 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
192
forms.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/js/
6 KB
3 KB
Script
General
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/assets/js/forms.js?ver=4.9.10
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.13.90.168 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-13-90-168.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
868a854b080d150aa6cc1a87d0d1b04cd8170e1bd891f93b610cd940d7a73108

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:21 GMT
content-encoding
gzip
last-modified
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:25:54 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
2617
ajax-forms.js
www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mc4wp-premium/ajax-forms/assets/js/
3 KB
2 KB
Script
General
Full URL
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/wp-content/plugins/mc4wp-premium/ajax-forms/assets/js/ajax-forms.js?ver=4.9.5
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.2, ECDHE_RSA, AES_128_GCM
Server
52.13.90.168 Boardman, United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
ec2-52-13-90-168.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
Software
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian) /
Resource Hash
77e309bea37f3a1b822f94c9b20d5ae0533a24c3446da5686396e4f5518fd700

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:21 GMT
content-encoding
gzip
last-modified
Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:25:50 GMT
server
Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
vary
Accept-Encoding
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
accept-ranges
bytes
content-length
1531
matomo.js
cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/
133 KB
40 KB
Script
General
Full URL
https://cdn.matomo.cloud/helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud/matomo.js
Requested by
Host: www.helpnetsecurity.com
URL: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/02/2023-holiday-attacks/
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2600:9000:211e:a000:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1 , United States, ASN16509 (AMAZON-02, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
CloudFront /
Resource Hash
5cd23b84defdf0a1a8a6b608680829e53bc2abb0998e93ac6076cb2c112a3477
Security Headers
Name Value
Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000

Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:06:48 GMT
x-amz-version-id
Zn1uT2R_wHwOuisYZSJ8Z_LK5fsBY7dn
content-encoding
gzip
strict-transport-security
max-age=31536000
via
1.1 3fdf3aacaef6ec40c4eedb85c8144da2.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
x-amz-cf-pop
FRA56-C2
age
10414
x-cache
Hit from cloudfront
x-amz-replication-status
COMPLETED
last-modified
Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:08:30 GMT
server
CloudFront
etag
W/"731f63de9d083a4e9ecf451ad2c5853b"
vary
Accept-Encoding
content-type
application/javascript; charset=utf-8
cache-control
max-age=691200
x-amz-cf-id
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/
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0
Image
General
Full URL
data:truncated
Protocol
DATA
Server
-, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
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Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Content-Type
image/svg+xml
truncated
/
1 KB
0
Image
General
Full URL
data:truncated
Protocol
DATA
Server
-, , ASN (),
Reverse DNS
Software
/
Resource Hash
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Request headers

accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
Referer
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

Content-Type
image/svg+xml
KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/
15 KB
15 KB
Font
General
Full URL
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxK.woff2
Requested by
Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:806::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
sffe /
Resource Hash
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Security Headers
Name Value
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
X-Xss-Protection 0

Request headers

Referer
https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:54:09 GMT
x-content-type-options
nosniff
age
21972
content-security-policy-report-only
require-trusted-types-for 'script'; report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/apps-themes
cross-origin-resource-policy
cross-origin
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
content-length
15744
x-xss-protection
0
last-modified
Wed, 11 May 2022 19:24:48 GMT
server
sffe
cross-origin-opener-policy
same-origin; report-to="apps-themes"
report-to
{"group":"apps-themes","max_age":2592000,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/report-to/apps-themes"}]}
content-type
font/woff2
access-control-allow-origin
*
cache-control
public, max-age=31536000
accept-ranges
bytes
timing-allow-origin
*
expires
Wed, 01 Jan 2025 08:54:09 GMT
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fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/
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Font
General
Full URL
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Requested by
Host: fonts.googleapis.com
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Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:806::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
sffe /
Resource Hash
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Security Headers
Name Value
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
X-Xss-Protection 0

Request headers

Referer
https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Origin
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com
accept-language
de-DE,de;q=0.9
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.129 Safari/537.36

Response headers

date
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:39:21 GMT
x-content-type-options
nosniff
age
339660
content-security-policy-report-only
require-trusted-types-for 'script'; report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/apps-themes
cross-origin-resource-policy
cross-origin
alt-svc
h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
content-length
15860
x-xss-protection
0
last-modified
Wed, 11 May 2022 19:24:42 GMT
server
sffe
cross-origin-opener-policy
same-origin; report-to="apps-themes"
report-to
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content-type
font/woff2
access-control-allow-origin
*
cache-control
public, max-age=31536000
accept-ranges
bytes
timing-allow-origin
*
expires
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:39:21 GMT
KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc4.woff2
fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v30/
15 KB
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Font
General
Full URL
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Requested by
Host: fonts.googleapis.com
URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto%3A300%2C300i%2C400%2C400i%2C500%2C500i%2C700%2C700i&subset=latin%2Clatin-ext&display=swap
Protocol
H2
Security
TLS 1.3, , AES_128_GCM
Server
2a00:1450:4001:806::2003 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ASN15169 (GOOGLE, US),
Reverse DNS
Software
sffe /
Resource Hash
f75911313e1c7802c23345ab57e754d87801581706780c993fb23ff4e0fe62ef
Security Headers
Name Value
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
X-Xss-Protection 0

Request headers

Referer
https://fonts.googleapis.com/
Origin
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Request headers

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Verdicts & Comments Add Verdict or Comment

10 JavaScript Global Variables

These are the non-standard "global" variables defined on the window object. These can be helpful in identifying possible client-side frameworks and code.

object| documentPictureInPicture object| _paq object| mc4wp object| hns23Ajax object| hns23Params object| mc4wp_ajax_vars object| Piwik object| Matomo object| AnalyticsTracker function| piwik_log

1 Cookies

Domain/Path Name / Value
.helpnetsecurity.com/ Name: SSESS4decf0f010bae5a263354c26060a9ea3
Value: 62euoss8dpak2il5hd3gfnie0h

Indicators

This is a term in the security industry to describe indicators such as IPs, Domains, Hashes, etc. This does not imply that any of these indicate malicious activity.

cdn.matomo.cloud
fonts.googleapis.com
fonts.gstatic.com
helpnetsecurity.matomo.cloud
img.helpnetsecurity.com
img2.helpnetsecurity.com
www.helpnetsecurity.com
18.195.235.189
2600:9000:211e:a000:c:7d55:b3c0:93a1
2a00:1450:4001:806::2003
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