Google SEO Poisoning Campaign
Compromises 15,000 Sites
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Summary Of The Attack
- Around 15,000 sites were compromised in a major search engine optimization campaign.
- The victims were redirected to fake Q&A discussion forums.
- WordPress PHP files of the websites were modified and injected to increase malicious sites rankings.
- The attack was first spotted by Sucuru.
- The threat actors probably tried to conduct an ad fraud.