Six million websites have been affected by a hacker. If the modus operandi of the hacker is not new, the ingenuity of the scheme was to reference fraudulent advertisements relaying false investment strategies on the Google search engine.
This so-called “black SEO” attack notably affects the sites of the Paris Hospitals Public Assistance, the Court of Cassation, Razer, IBM and even Mozilla. The blog of Zatazcybersecurity expert, calls for suspicion on this large-scale attack.
The Court of Cassation concerned by the fraudulent referencing
This “Black Hat SEO” technique, which affects French and international sites here, consists of deceiving a search engine as to the quality of a page and thus referencing fraudulent links. This kind of attack is rather complicated to set up, especially with regard to Google’s drastic rules in terms of SEO.
This time however, the hacker “KK6638” managed to distill pirate ads for fake investment strategies and other earning money, which is hard to get rid of after clicking on the Google link.
Telegram code name: KK6638
On his Telegram, the Vietnamese hacker KK6638 writes in particular that “ Private support always makes money “. According to Zatazthe purpose of his interventions is most certainly a phishing attempt to recover the personal data of the victims.
If we hope that you will not be fooled, it is necessary to protect all users. Remember that scams on the Internet are legion and continue to wreak havoc; Recently in France, a Personal Training Account scam has already claimed more than 5,000 victims and embezzled more than 16 million euros, by e-mail or telephone.
Source: Zataz.com
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