How to Find & Fix the Japanese Keyword Hack

If you’re wondering how to find and fix the Japanese keyword hack, get started by identifying a real-life example. First, open Google Translate, and then get the Japanese characters for the search term buy Ralph Lauren. Copy and paste that into … Continue reading How to Find & Fix the Japanese Keyword Hack

How to Find & Remove SEO Spam on WordPress

Perhaps the best way to dive into the subject of finding and removing SEO spam on WordPress is with a quick experiment — probably one you’ll want to conduct at a private location. Run a Google search with the terms buy viagra cialis.
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Is My Site Hacked?

It’s a day every website owner fears. You open the website you’ve poured your time, energy, and money into, only to find your home page looking very different.
After your stomach sinks and you take a long gasp, you’ll likely shout ou… Continue reading Is My Site Hacked?

Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam

We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot.
What was especially frustrating for the website owner was that these spammy links were no… Continue reading Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam

Spamdexing: What is SEO Spam and How to Remove It

If you’re wondering what is SEO spam, a good way to gain an understanding is finding this wily beast in the wild. In your favorite browser, search with the terms buy viagra cialis. (You might want to check over your shoulder first.)
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Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019

The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop tools and find new vulnerabilities to massively exploit, our team works dilig… Continue reading Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019

The Strange Case of the Malicious Favicon

During the past year, our Remediation department has seen a large increase in the number of fully spammed sites.
The common factors are strangely named and unusually located favicon.ico files, along with the creation of “bak.bak” index fil… Continue reading The Strange Case of the Malicious Favicon

Why is Your Website a Target? The SEO Value of a Website

Website security is what we eat, sleep, and breathe. It’s what we do best because we deal with hacked websites every single day, thousands of them. Among the various types and evolution in attack scenarios, one has remained the same for all thes… Continue reading Why is Your Website a Target? The SEO Value of a Website

Korean Gambling and Call Girl Spam on Hacked and Non-hacked Sites

This blog post talks about how a web spam campaign that targets only one country may create problems for sites owners around the world — even if their site is not hacked.
It all began with a pretty regular sample of an infected WordPress index.p… Continue reading Korean Gambling and Call Girl Spam on Hacked and Non-hacked Sites