{"id":767,"date":"2010-09-27T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-10-07T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T17:50:33","slug":"google-continues-to-index-pages-from-seo-poisoning-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/google-continues-to-index-pages-from-seo-poisoning-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Continues To Index Pages From SEO Poisoning Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues to include in its search index, pages from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/resources\/security-threat-analysis-seo-poisoning-malware.html\">major SEO poisoning campaign<\/a>. SEO poisoning involves getting web pages listed in search engines that  when accessed attempt to infect the computer with malware. We have repeatedly reported a listing of pages used by this campaign, that is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getalllinks.info\/links\/0.txt\">http:\/\/www.getalllinks.info\/links\/0.txt<\/a>, to Google using their page for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/safebrowsing\/report_badware\/\">reporting a malware page<\/a> over a period of several months.\u00a0 Google has continued to list these pages in its index leading to an unknown, but possibly large number of computers to become infected with malware . These page have also not been flagged as being malicious by Google&#8217;s Safe Browsing system during the period when they are most likely to be infect users computers.<\/p>\n<p>Our recent experience has shown that public releasing the information get Google to respond, while there reporting mechanisms get ignored. We recently posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/2010\/09\/16\/google-sites-hosts-files-used-in-attempted-hackings\/\">Google providing hosting for files used in attempted hackings,<\/a> after having reporting using their mechanism multiple times without any action being taken Google disabled the account the day after our posting.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies have allowed this SEO poisoning campaign to continue,  including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/2010\/08\/16\/the-planet-hosts-critical-component-of-seo-poisoning-campaign\/\">The  Planet who provides hosting for a critical component of the campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google continues to include in its search index, pages from a major SEO poisoning campaign. SEO poisoning involves getting web pages listed in search engines that when accessed attempt to infect the computer with malware. We have repeatedly reported a listing of pages used by this campaign, that is available at http:\/\/www.getalllinks.info\/links\/0.txt, to Google using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/google-continues-to-index-pages-from-seo-poisoning-campaign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Continues To Index Pages From SEO Poisoning Campaign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}