Every shortened links when visited using Google chrome or Mozilla Firefox warns the visitor of Malware.

Even the homepage of Bit.ly is marked as malicious by both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

URL Shortening services like bit.ly are commonly used by cyber criminals and spammers to spread malwares and spams.

Oops URL Shortening service

(Security warning Displayed, while trying to access via Firefox)

but this seems difficult way for bit.ly webmasters, because bit.ly is really full of malicious links.

It also says that 4 bit.ly sites were found to be working as intermediateries for distribution of malware.

Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine.

(Security warning Displayed, while trying to access via Firefox)

(Security warning Displayed, while trying to access via Firefox)

Malicious software is hosted on 365 domain(s), including hotclip.mobi/, likoj.net/, denotablin.com/.

On Mozilla Firefox, launch the link > On the warning page > hit Ignore this warning

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Oops URL Shortening service “bit.ly” Flagged as Malicious by Google and Firefox

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source: www.techworm.net