SEO scam unveiled

Cyveillance says that it has uncovered a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that has affected more than 260,000 websites.
The scam targets Google search by getting browsers that are linked to sites that attempt to download malware onto their machines. The company said that the common string albums/bsblog/category has been posted in many URLs of several blogs. This inputs several results that lead to malicious sites.
“Readers can simply copy and paste the destination URL into your browser to direct it to the desired Website; you would be taken to [a] boring but otherwise harmless blog posting like those pictured earlier in this discussion,” the company explained. “The attack only happens when the compromised blog site determines that you arrived by way of Google by checking the HTTP referrer.”
Cyveillance said that the infected sites utilized rogue blog publishing to automatically generate new posts with titles like “las vegas rental no credit check” or “uninvited song lyrics alanis morrissette morissette.”
These poisoning campaigns are detrimental to legite SEO operations.
Source: Security Watch