Blackhat SEO Posioning attack

Blackhat SEO poisoning attacks
Recently , i have reported that Google Image
search and Bing Image search leads to
malware sites especially a blackhole exploit
kit page. The reason behind this attack is SEO
Poisoning.
What is SEO?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a
collection of techniques to improve the
visibility of a website in a search engine's
search results. Some of the techniques used
by webmasters in
What is BlackHat SEO?
Black Hat SEO , also known as SEO poisoning,
is a illegal-technique used by cyber criminals
to make their links appear higher than
legitimate results. When a user search for
related keywords, the infected links appear in
the top of the search results
Hacker use one of the following techniques:
*Creating SEO-friendly fake pages related to
poplar search topics on compromised sites
*Cloak malicious content from sphiders and
security researchers.
* Iframe injection
Poisoning Image search Results:
As most of search engines filter and find the
text-based seo poisoning attacks, Cyber
criminals now poisoning the Image search
results instead.
They hacked legitimate sites and inject
malicoius code. Whenever a person click the
Image of compromised site in the search
result , it will redirect him to malware sites.
Sophos reports that bing image-search results
are being poisoned more than other search
engines.
Learn more about SEO Poisoning :
here