What is the Gibberish Hack?

Discovering some random folder with numbers and letters you don’t remember on your website would make any website owner put on their detective cap. At first, you may think, “Did I leave my FTP client open and my cat ran across the keyboard?”

But when you open the folder, you find a series of HTML files, each named with some kind of nonsensical phrases like “cheap-cool-hairstyles-photos.html.” If you open one of these files on the browser, you’ll likely be redirected to something you’re not expecting, such as a suspicious ecommerce site or an error page.

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