Additionally, low-scale sites can be loaded with malicious content on purpose. However, security experts and virus researchers sent out multiple warnings that almost every super-popular porn site can expose users to malware. That is simply how adult-oriented sites are funded, mostly. While porn sites do not really want users to get infected with malicious software (despite popular belief), they do seek to gain juicy ad revenue. Nevertheless, cybercrimes are not exclusive to porn – it's the demand that the cybercriminals care about. There’s no doubt that cybercriminals are aware of these statistics and creating new ways to reach people who are looking for visual stimulation and do not use precautionary measures to protect their computers from infections. According to Pornhub (one of the most successful porn sites worldwide that happens to be 8th most visited site in the world) 2019 statistics report, the domain received a whopping 42 billion visitors throughout the year, up from 33.5 billion the year prior. In 2020, numbers are just growing higher, with more porn sites being created, more videos uploaded, and more visitors acquired. Sex sells, and the online porn business has been booming since the early days of the internet. Porn sites become more popular, but malicious such pages with malicious content on the rise too
