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How Google Is (NOT) Tackling the Blackhat SEO Issue

ID: f3f495bf-561b-51f3-9322-b2f8cb917c1c

STIX ID: report--f3f495bf-561b-51f3-9322-b2f8cb917c1c

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2025-09-18

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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The report documents an SEO poisoning campaign where attackers hack legitimate, high-ranking sites to show benign content to crawlers but redirect search-traffic visitors to fake antivirus pages (notably mysecure-safetypc.xorg.pl) that prompt malware downloads; it lists example malicious URLs and discusses Google SafeBrowsing flags and evasion via Referer-based checks.

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