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…
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The Case of Hidden Spam Pages
Ben Martin 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
Puja Srivastava 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…
SiteCheck Remote Website Scanner — Mid-Year 2024 Report
Kyle Knight Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote website scanners may not…
How to Find & Fix Japanese SEO Spam
Japanese SEO Spam, also known as “Japanese keyword hack” or “Japanese SEO poisoning,” is a spammy search engine optimization technique used by black hat SEO…
Bogus URL Shorteners Go Mobile-Only in AdSense Fraud Campaign
Denis Sinegubko Since September 2022, our team has been tracking a bogus URL shortener redirect campaign that started with just a single domain: ois[.]is. By the beginning…
SiteCheck Remote Website Scanner — Mid-Year 2023 Report
Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote scanners may not provide…
Abandoned US Congressional Website Used in Asian Gambling Spam Infection
Website owners and developers tend to buy a lot of domains. With different projects on the go and working with multiple different clients at any…
Massive Google Colaboratory Abuse: Gambling and Subscription Scam
This investigation started with a small and quite simple piece of PHP malware found on a hacked website. We located the following PHP code, responsible…