What is a TDS (Traffic Director System)?

The idea to write this post came from investigating multiple cases of infections in computers because of the ubiquitous Exploit Kits (EK). A visit to a website that apparently should not carry any risk ended with the user calling the security service because he could not open his files and said that an image appeared on the screen asking him for money to recover his data. And in other cases not even that, because he had become infected with a RAT or a banking Trojan and was not aware of it.

There are simple redirection methods that are implemented directly on the web server. They are options that allow to manage the visits to this website and adapt its behavior to the preferences or characteristics of the visitors.

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