Thousands of Hacked Sites Seriously Poison Google Image Search Results
This investigation began a few weeks ago, when I came across the following two threads in website security forums:
[badwarebusters.org] Lately I have been seeing a huge increase in the number of hacked sites appearing on google image search results that redirect to a fake Av scanner. more »»
[Google Webmaster Help] google image search results often has multiple infected / malware sites on the first SERP page. more »»
This is a well known problem. I blogged about such SEO poisoning attacks several times here. This time I decided to check what’s behind the reported increase in malicious image search results.
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Tweet Week: May 31 – June 6, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Adobe and Java vulnerabilities, hotlinking, file permissions, $100 million scareware case etc. »»
More About the Rogue Image Blogs on Servage Network…
This is the fifth article in the series about rogue blogs created by hackers inside legitimate websites of Servage clients. Millions of malicious web pages has seriously poisoned Google search results, redirecting visitors to scareware sites. You might want to read the previous posts first:
- Hackers Abuse Servage Hosting to Poison Google Image Search (April 28, 2010)
- Internals of Rogue Blogs (March 17, 2010)
- Rogue blogs redirect search traffic to bogus AV sites. Part 2 (November 27, 2009)
- Rogue blogs regirect search traffic to bogus AV sites. Part 1 (November 26, 2009)
In this post, I’ll describe how the new generation of rogue blogs works.
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