Health IT Security August 16, 2023
Threat actors lure victims into clicking on seemingly credible links by optimizing malicious web pages through a tactic known as SEO poisoning.
– It is reasonable to assume that the first few links that pop up as a result of an inquiry on a search engine are the most credible. In fact, thanks to search engine optimization (SEO), the first results often are the most reliable sources. However, cyber threat actors are cognizant of this and are more than willing to take advantage of an internet user’s assumed trust in these search results.
Using SEO poisoning, cybercriminals leverage tried-and-true SEO tactics to craft malicious websites and make sure that they rank highly in search results. When a user clicks on...
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