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Visited Typosquat Site (reddit but with 3 D's), Double Checking for Safety
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Hello folks,

First time poster here and not really a Net/InfoSec guy. I do system administration out of necessity as the only person with an RHCE certification at my job even though my job is first and foremost research in a biologically-related field.

With that short introduction, as the title states I accidentally typo'd reddit and visited the typosquatted site with 3 d's instead of 2. Here is the source of the site (so nobody has to visit it): https://termbin.com/wah6. Reddit's code block doesn't seem to like to play nice with pastes.

First and foremost I am using the NoScript and uBlock Origin Extensions so that leads me to believe I was redirected to the bit in the <noscript> section of that page and that did appear to be the case when I saw the URL in my browser. Upon further inspection I chose to look at the source of the redirected page and there's nothing there.

URLScan shows it got completely redirected to some news conglomeration website of some sort called simcast(dot)com. I did not get redirected all the way to this site.

The VirusTotal results shows 3 vendors flagging the site as Malicious and a fourth stating it to be Suspicious.

I just wanted to double check with some NetSec experts if I am likely safe or not.

Thank you for your time.

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