Nobody likes spam. It’s never fun (unless you’re watching Monty Python). For us it comes with the territory; removing SEO spam has been at the core of what we … [Read more...]
SEO Spam Technique Designed to Avoid Detection
Ten years ago the internet looked very different than it does now. Today, web designers have more options and standards to make a website stand out. Do you … [Read more...]
Seo-moz.com SEO Spam Campaign
Here at Sucuri we handle countless cases of SEO spam. This malware involves a website being compromised in order to spread (mostly pharmaceutical) … [Read more...]
Fake Media Download Sites
Your website is a huge part of your brand reputation. It serves as a place to build your audience and helps you get noticed by new visitors from search engines. … [Read more...]
Spam Campaign Causes “DDoS” by Googlebot
Every once in a while we get a glimpse into rare and strange behavior that doesn’t involve the website being hacked, but causes major problems for website … [Read more...]
Analyzing Proxy Based Spam Networks
We are no strangers to Blackhat SEO techniques, we’ve actually spent a great deal of time working and sharing various bits of information related to Blackhat … [Read more...]
Malicious Google Search Console Verifications
This past summer we noticed a trend of more and more Blackhat SEO hacks trying to verify additional accounts as owners of compromised sites in Google Search … [Read more...]
Wigo Means Bingo for Blackseo Agent
This week my colleague Peter Gramantik showed me a few infected sites that had very similar code embedded in the WordPress index.php files: if … [Read more...]
Malicious Google Analytics Referral Spam
Robots (bots) have outnumbered people on the Internet for almost two years, and they browse much faster than your average visitor. Aside from spamming your … [Read more...]
Analyzing a Facebook Clickbait Worm
Here at Sucuri we suspect everything, especially when your friends start to share content written in another language with clickbait headlines. If you are not … [Read more...]