Recently , i have reported that google image search and bing image search leads to malware sites specially a blackhole exploit kit page. The reason behind this attack is SEO Poisoning.
What is SEO ?
search engine optimization (SEO)is a collection of techniques to improve the visibility of a website in a search results . Some of the techniques used by webmasters in
What is black hat SEO ?
Black Hat SEO , also known as SEO Poisoning , is a illegal-technique used by cyber criminals to make their links appear higher than legitimate results. When a user search for related keywords , the infected links appear in the top of the search results
Hacker use one of the following techniques :
* Creating SEO-friendly fake page related to poplar search topics on compromised sites
* Cloak malicious content from sphiders and security researchers .
* Iframe injection.
Poisoning image search results :
As most of search engines filter and find the text-base seo poisoning attacks , Cyber criminals now poisoning the image search results insted.
They hacked legitimate sites and inject malicious code. Whenever a person click the image of compromised site in the search results , it will redirect him to malware sites. Sophos reports that bing image-search results are being poisoned more than other search engines.
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