Bogus URL Shorteners Redirect Thousands of Hacked Sites in AdSense Fraud Campaign

Late last year we reported on a malware campaign targeting thousands of WordPress websites to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A websites. The sites themselves contained very little useful information to a regular visitor, but — more importantly — also contained Google Adsense advertisements. It appeared to be an attempt to artificially pump ad views to generate revenue.

Since September, our SiteCheck remote scanner has detected this campaign on 10,890 infected sites.

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