When Spam Hides In Plain Sight

We recently worked on an interesting case where Casino spam was visible in the page source, but couldn’t be located in any of the usual database rows or site files. Sitecheck flagged this as well.

Casino and gambling spam is one of the most common types of spam attackers use. They are hoping that victims will submit personal information and credit card data on those pages. When search engines crawl infected sites, the spam pages will be indexed leading to malicious gambling pages appearing in search results that visitors may be tempted to click.

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