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Swine flu and the Blackhat SEO techniques

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  05 May 09 01:12     You should be careful when you’re looking for information on the web. Not everything is as it seems, and even more when the Blackhat SEO techniques are so frequently used, which enable malicious websites to be positioned in search engines. And why

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New Blackhat SEO attack exploits vulnerabilities in Wordpress to distribute rogue antivirus software

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  23 April 09 06:50     Over the past week we have seen a new Blackhat SEO technique emerge to exploit vulnerabilities in the popular Wordpress blog software. Two of the sites we identified were TheWorkBuzz.com, a website owned and operated by Career Builder (CareerBuilder.com),

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Targeted Blackhat SEO Attack against Ford Motor Co. (Updated)

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  14 April 09 10:29     Recently, we have talked about Blackhat SEO fueled Rogue Software Campaigns . Today, we have uncovered a similar campaign with over 1 Million links all targeting the Ford Motor Company . These attacks work by misleading search engines to falsely promote

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Blackhat SEO Fueled Rogue Security Campaign

Posted by Oscar Cavada at  24 March 09 05:15     Today we observed yet another Blackhat SEO campaign fueling the distribution of the System Security Rogue Anti-Malware from Pandora Software. Blackhat SEO is a method used by criminals to trick search engines into displaying their content ahead of other

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