Following the Black Hat SEO Traces
This is a follow up to my last week’s post about hacked WordPress blogs and poisoned Google Images search results. Cyber-criminals infiltrated 4,000+ self-hosted WP blogs and created doorway pages that would redirect visitors coming from Google Images search to scareware sites. A few days ago I posted a short update to let you know that Google has removed the doorway pages from its index. I also promised to share some new interesting details about that black hat SEO campaign. So here we go!
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Two Tweet Weeks: July 25 – August 7, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Hacked WordPress Blogs Poison Google Images
After a series of posts about Google Image poisoning campaigns that used hot-linked images a main trick to get top positions in search results, I’d like to describe a different Google Image poisoning attack that affects WordPress blogs and uses self-hosted images.
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Tweet Week: July 18-24, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Google’s warning, G.CO, Python in WordPress!?, Joomla 1.7, follow up on the tattoo spam »»
Tweet Week: July 11-17, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Yahoo without Site Explorer, Google without CO.TV, new WordPress, PuTTY »»
Tweet Week: July 4-10, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Tweet Week: June 27 – July 3, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Two Tweet Weeks: June 13-26, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Two Tweet Weeks: May 16-29, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
SEO poisoning, canonical hacks, SmartScreen, WordPress, Facebook clickjacking …
Tweet Week: May 9-15, 2011
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
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