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Black hat SEO campaign targets WordPress and Joomla installations (Help Net Security)
2016-04-05 19:33

Avast is warning about a longstanding black hat SEO campaign involving sites running hacked WordPress and Joomla installations. In this latest campaign, the attackers inject a fake jQuery script into the head section of the websites, so that it goes unnoticed by random visitors (unless they check out the source code and know enough to spot it). The script loads 10 milliseconds after a visitor lands on a compromised site/page, and it injects links inside … More →


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Joomla 129 12 388 460 16 876
Wordpress 49 36 410 104 29 579