Infosecurity Magazine: Researchers Uncover “Haxor” SEO Poisoning Marketplace

The FIRE team uncovered an SEO poisoning marketplace that helps threat actors manipulate search rankings by placing malicious backlinks on compromised but legitimate websites. The research highlights how attackers leverage aged domains, common SEO trust metrics, and low-cost automation to push phishing and malware pages ahead of legitimate search results. 

Originally published in Infosecurity Magazine. 

Excerpt: “The threat intelligence firm has been working with relevant domain service providers, web owners and search engines to take down the malicious pages. However, it also encouraged users to improve their awareness of such schemes.”