A web spam campaign targeting Koreans is affecting non-hacked websites worldwide.
A web spam campaign that targets Koreans is creating problems for site administrators all around the world. Hackers are compromising vulnerable Korean-language WordPress websites, but are also polluting search engine results for non-hacked sites globally.
Researchers at Sucuri initially uncovered a web spam doorway generator injected into a compromised website, “with all the typical features, including: fetching spammy content from a third-party server, caching it on a compromised server, and serving different versions of web pages to search engine bots and human visitors,” explained Denis Sinegubko, senior malware researcher at Sucuri, in a posting on Friday.
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