Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign
A new malicious campaign has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites A new malicious campaign in an attempt to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A portals has compromised over 15000 WordPress websites.”These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker’s sites for search engines,” Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report published last week, calling it a “clever black hat SEO trick.” The threat actor operates a handful of fake low quality Q&A sites. The search engine poisoning technique is designed to promote the fake sites that share similar website-building templates. A notable aspect of the campaign is the ability of the hackers to modify over […]