What is online gambling spam and what can I do about it?
Sucuri Online gambling spam thrives on dreams of easy money and high stakes. Beating the house at an exotic casino. Splitting sevens. Going all in on…
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Joomla SEO Spam Injector: Obfuscated PHP Backdoor Hijacking Site Visitors
Puja Srivastava Overview During a recent malware cleanup investigation, we encountered a compromised Joomla website where the site owner reported a strange issue. Their website displayed a…
Shadow Directories: A Unique Method to Hijack WordPress Permalinks
Last month, while working on a WordPress cleanup case, a customer reached out with a strange complaint: their website looked completely normal to them and…
Google Sees Spam, You See Your Site: A Cloaked SEO Spam Attack
We recently handled a case where a customer reported strange SEO behavior on their website. Regular visitors saw a normal site. No popups. No redirects.…
Slot Gacor: The Rise of Online Casino Spam
Ben Martin Online casino spam has been without a doubt one of the most prevalent types of spam content that we’ve seen on infected websites in recent…
SEO Spam Removal: Protect Search Rankings Before Blocklists Do
Kyle Knight SEO spam used to be just annoying, but now it’s a huge moneymaker for organized crime. These groups are pushing fake meds, illegal gambling, and…
Fake Spam Plugin Uses Victim’s Domain Name to Evade Detection
Kayleigh Martin During our investigation of an SEO spam infection (spam content designed to manipulate search engine results), we discovered a nicely crafted plugin that named itself…
The Case of Hidden Spam Pages
Spammy posts and pages being placed on WordPress websites is one of the most common infections that we come across. The reason being is that…
What Motivates Website Malware Attacks?
The depiction in the media of hackers tends to be that of balaclava-wearing villains who type furiously in a dark basement, motivated by nothing but…
Fake WordPress Plugin Impacts SEO by Injecting Casino Spam
Injecting malware via a fake WordPress plugin has been a common tactic of attackers for some time. This clever method is often used to bypass…
Japanese Spam on a Cleaned WordPress Site: The Hidden Sitemap Problem
While investigating a compromised WordPress site, we discovered a malware infection causing Japanese spam links to appear in Google search results. Although the site had…