jsrailton, 1 year ago NEW: I found 1000s of shady PDFs hosted on .gov websites of states, universities, defense contractors, etc. It was a clever SEO spam operation, but the access could have been exploited for more nefarious things. 1/ @lorenzofb has the writeup https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/scammers-publish-ads-for-hacking-services-on-government-websites/ #cybersecurity #spam #SEO #google #instagram #tiktok #fraud image/png image/png image/png
NEW: I found 1000s of shady PDFs hosted on .gov websites of states, universities, defense contractors, etc.
It was a clever SEO spam operation, but the access could have been exploited for more nefarious things. 1/
@lorenzofb has the writeup
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/scammers-publish-ads-for-hacking-services-on-government-websites/
#cybersecurity #spam #SEO #google #instagram #tiktok #fraud
image/png image/png image/png
jsrailton, 1 year ago 2/ SEO operations like this are a bit like opportunistic infections for Content Management Systems. They show up when there are bugs, misconfigurations & permissions issues. #CISA rapidly pushed out notifications to affected orgs & the content is coming down all over. #cybersecurity #spam #SEO #google #CMS
2/ SEO operations like this are a bit like opportunistic infections for Content Management Systems.
They show up when there are bugs, misconfigurations & permissions issues.
#CISA rapidly pushed out notifications to affected orgs & the content is coming down all over.
#cybersecurity #spam #SEO #google #CMS
jsrailton, 1 year ago 3/ The #SEO PDF spam is still all over. Including many gov sites. Want to help? 1️⃣ Google search: "site:[pick a top-level domain e.g. .gov.au .gov.uk etc.] instagram hack followers filetype:pdf" 2️⃣mix in terms e.g. "Tiktok" & "fans." 3️⃣ Cry 4️⃣Gently notify administrators #spam #seo #cybersecurity #IT #networking #google
3/ The #SEO PDF spam is still all over. Including many gov sites.
Want to help?
1️⃣ Google search:
"site:[pick a top-level domain e.g. .gov.au .gov.uk etc.] instagram hack followers filetype:pdf"
2️⃣mix in terms e.g. "Tiktok" & "fans."
3️⃣ Cry
4️⃣Gently notify administrators
#spam #seo #cybersecurity #IT #networking #google
jfmezei, 1 year ago @jsrailton What do the PDFs actually contain? Any information of value towards hacking accounts, or just junk promises etc ? do the pdfs contain malicious code that runs on Windows?
@jsrailton What do the PDFs actually contain? Any information of value towards hacking accounts, or just junk promises etc ? do the pdfs contain malicious code that runs on Windows?
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