Security News > 2020 > January > SEO Spam Dominated Website Infections in 2019: Report
2020-01-30 05:47
Last year, SEO spam was the most frequently observed threat on compromised websites, according to a new report from GoDaddy-owned web security company Sucuri.
Nearly two-thirds of infected websites had a form of SEO spam present, with database spam being the most prevalent form of infection.
Over 56% of all CMS applications were found to be outdated, Sucuri's 2019 Website Threat Research Report shows.
According to the website security company, 49% of WordPress installations were outdated at the point of infection last year, a much lower percentage when compared to Joomla, Magento, and Drupal.
Last year, 54.13% of websites using PHP had PHP 5.x, 6.6% had PHP 7.0, and 8.7% had PHP 7.1, which reached EOL status on December 1, 2019.