SEO spam
Hidden SEO Spam Link Injections on WordPress Sites
Often when a website is injected with SEO spam, the owner is completely unaware of the issue until they begin to receive warnings from search engines or blacklists. This is by design ...
SiteCheck Malware Report: September Summary
Our free SiteCheck tool helps website owners remotely scan their website to detect malware infections, blacklisting status, website errors, and other anomalies. Scanning a website’s external HTML source code provides immediate results, ...
COVID-19 Chloroquine Pharmaspam
A recent SiteCheck scan of an organization’s website showed an interesting pharmacy spam injection targeting COVID-19-related pages of websites. The HTML that was flagged by our SiteCheck signature, spam-seo.hidden_content?100.2, shows why the ...
SEO Hacktool: Sitemap Generator
An XML sitemap is an important part of a website’s SEO and exists to help search engine crawlers index new URLs on your website. For example, if a site has a large ...
Vulnerabilities Digest: June 2020
Highlights for June 2020 Cross site scripting is still the most common vulnerability in WordPress Plugins. Bad actors are taking advantage of the lack of restrictions in critical functions and issues surrounding ...
What is the Gibberish Hack?
Discovering some random folder with numbers and letters you don’t remember on your website would make any website owner put on their detective cap. At first, you may think, “Did I leave ...
How to Find & Fix WordPress Pharma Hack
It’s hard for any website owner to discover pharmaceutical spam. Finding bogus content for prescription drugs on a website you watched grow from a tiny blog can be heartbreaking. But don’t blame ...
What is online gambling spam and what can I do about it?
When it comes to online gambling spam, first think about fantasies of fame and fortune. Who hasn’t imagined defying the odds at an exotic casino? Splitting a pair of sevens. Going all ...
Top 10 Hacks & Attacks from 2019
Last year was a busy one in the world of website security. Our 2019 Threat Research Report shows that over 60% of websites we cleaned had a vulnerability at the point of ...
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 ...

