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Anatomy of a Blackhat SEO spam campaign (with a twist)

CATO Networks

Legitimate websites are hacked and recruited into a spam network During a periodic analysis of Cato Cloud traffic in the Cato Research Lab, we noticed that our security analytics engine was triggered by a request to a code sharing service, Pastebin. Interestingly, at this point in time the script refers to a HTML page and not Javascript code.

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Cato Research Decrypts the News Behind February Security Events

CATO Networks

With a spoofed WLAN, the attackers can see the traffic traversing their sites as well as modify the HTML and the JavaScript contained in HTTP requests Most Internet traffic from small to medium enterprises (SMEs) mobile users is encrypted either by the companys VPN or by HTTPS.

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