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Joomla faces yet another Spamming Campaign in the form of Pornography!!!

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The unpatched sites of Joomla have been a victim of several SEO poisoning for quite some time now. The recent study conducted by the Sucuri researchers has shed some light on yet another SEP attack targeted by Joomla. Porn spamming campaign has targeted the unpatched Joomla vulnerabilities. The SEP technique is a form of attack which is used to take advantage of the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) rankings in which the spam content is concealed to the normal website visitors, thus making them prey to the spam campaign. Since all the related spam, keywords and links that are indexed for ranking are visible only to the search engine crawlers the normal visitors doesn’ t have any idea about the malicious nature of the web content.

According to the Succi researcher Bruno Zanelanto, the reason behind the spam plunge is to generate more click revenue which they acquire by simply redirecting the website visitors who come from an infected site to the porn content. Further, he adds that the malware campaign covers its tracks by using multiple layers of obfuscation thus making it difficult for webmasters to identify the hack.

In order to make sure that the users avert any possible porn spamming campaign, it is advised that they use the latest version of Joomla and to use a cloud-based Wen Application Firewall.

When asked about the issue a Joomla spokesperson has said, “ This specific issue was quickly identified and resolved by our development teams and resolved in a subsequent release.”

“ As long as web site managers follow our recommendations and keep their site updated with the latest Joomla release, these potential vulnerabilities are mitigated,” he further added.

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