Your site redirects to foreign ads? That is a sign of a break-in
One of the most common signals that someone has taken over a site is unwanted redirects: a visitor (or you) opens your address and moments later lands on a foreign ad, a "prize" page or a shady shop. Sometimes it happens only on phones or only for people coming from Google, because the attacker deliberately hides it from the owner.
Why attackers do this
It is plain business: hijacked traffic from your site earns money for someone else. Your visitors are redirected to sites that pay for visits, phish for data or install further threats. Your site becomes an unwitting middleman, and that destroys customer trust and Google rankings.
Why "it works fine for me"
Clever infections redirect selectively: they skip the logged-in administrator, show only on mobile devices or only when arriving from a search engine. That is why the first signal is often a call from a customer, "what is going on with your site?", while you see everything as fine.
If customers report redirects you do not see yourself, take it seriously. It is a very typical pattern, not "something they imagined".
What to do
It is not enough to remove one visible redirect, you have to find the injected code (often in files, the database or .htaccess) and the backdoor the attacker returns through. Without closing the door, the infection and redirects come back within a few days.
We will remove the malware and close the door
We find the source of the redirects, clean the site and close the way in, and then keep watch for whether the problem returns.
Customers say your site throws them somewhere? Reach out, we will check and fix it.