Cybercriminals are using popular Search Engine Optimization (SEO) methods to improve the rankings of their phishing sites, and it seems to be working rather well. According to a new report from security service edge provider, Netskope, phishing downloads of malicious PDF files rose 450% in the last 12 months, and SEO tools are partly to “blame”. SEO is a practice in which the contents of specific websites are optimized in such a way that search engines are better able to index, and… Source link
Read More »Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing – Threatpost
SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware. The pushers behind the SolarMarker backdoor malware are flooding the web with PDFs stuffed with keywords and links that redirect to the password-stealing, credential-snarfing malware. Microsoft Security Intelligence said in a Tweet on Friday that the SolarMarker (also known as… Source link
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