Tag Archives: PDFs

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

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