A Year Later, Clearly “Blackhat SEO” is still Working
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Akamai researchers analyzed a year-long blackhat SEO campaign that used SQL injection to inject hidden referral links across many compromised websites to artificially boost the search ranking and traffic of a site sharing cheating and infidelity stories; Alexa metrics show the promoted site rose from ~4 million to ~400,000 in global rank, and about 369 referring sites were identified, indicating persistent manipulation rather than direct data theft.
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