A new SEO poisoning campaign has been discovered that is targeting keywords associated with the U.S. midterm elections. Users who are enticed to visit these pages will then be redirected to a variety of scam sites, adult sites, and sites pushing unwanted software. In a new report released today, Zscaler explains how attackers have hacked over 10,000 web sites in order to promote 15,000 different keywords. BleepingComputer’s research indicates that the vast majority of sites involved in this poisoning campaign are running Worpdress. It is not known what vulnerabilities are being used to compromise these sites.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/seo-poisoning-campaign-targeting-us-midterm-election-keywords/