• illyism 13 hours ago

    This is a wild example of how much damage a single compromised .gov or .edu domain can do. The scale of these attacks is insane, many SERPs are effected, millions of visits funneled to spam and scams, all because attackers can piggyback on the trust Google gives to these domains.

    • WarOnPrivacy 13 hours ago

      > The scale of these attacks is insane, many SERPs are effected, millions of visits funneled to spam and scams,

      This is the means; what is the end? Is it to get visitors to click on a link in the PDF and visit that site?

      • illyism 13 hours ago

        Pretty much, if you rank #1 in a 1,000,000 volume keyword you get a lot of traffic