Abandoned US Congressional Website Used in Asian Gambling Spam Infection

Website owners and developers tend to buy a lot of domains. With different projects on the go and working with multiple different clients at any given time it can be a challenge to keep track of all your inventory. Sadly, when old websites and domains get forgotten about they can be preyed upon by attackers and misused for their own ends.

We’ve recently observed a campaign of blackhat SEO infections peddling Asian gambling spam that have been abusing one such …

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