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Data Breach Today
JUNE 16, 2021
PDF Documents Stuffed With SEO Keywords Lead to Malware Attacks SolarMarker malware operators are using "SEO poisoning" techniques to deploy the remote access Trojan to steal sensitive information, Microsoft reports.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Experts warn of a malicious SEO campaign that has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A portals. This black hat SEO theory is also backed by the fact that the second level domains of the Q&A sites seem to belong to the same people. ” Pierluigi Paganini.
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KnowBe4
MAY 11, 2022
Researchers at Netskope have observed a 450% increase in phishing downloads over the past twelve months, largely driven by attackers using SEO (search engine optimization) to improve the search engine ranking of malicious sites. Most of these downloads were malware-laden PDF files.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2023
Search Scams Luring Users to Malware-Infected Sites Are Often Tricky to Detect Search engine optimization poisoning attacks, which involve intentionally manipulating search results to lead users onto malware-laced websites, are on the rise in the healthcare sector, U.S. federal regulators warn.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Cybercriminals leveraging the SolarMarker.NET-based backdoor are using a technique called SEO poisoning to drive malicious payloads into victims’ systems so they can gain access to the credentials and data within. If they click on the SEO-poisoned link, they see a malicious PDF on the page. Malicious SolarMarker downloads.
Security Affairs
JUNE 14, 2021
Microsoft spotted a series of attacks that use SEO poisoning to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) used by threat actors to steal sensitive data. Microsoft is monitoring a wave of cyber attacks that leverages SEO poisoning to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) to steal sensitive data from the infected systems. Pierluigi Paganini.
KnowBe4
MAY 24, 2022
So-called “Black Hat SEO” services have popped up on Dark Web forums bringing advantageous search results to anyone willing to pay a small monthly fee.
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