10,800 WordPress websites have been infected with malware through an ad fraud hacking campaign.
This campaign has been deployed since September 2022.
- The campaign aims to redirect visitors to compromised WordPress sites.
- By redirecting users to these websites, hackers aim to increase their AdSense revenue by tricking Google into believing that the website has organic traffic.
- The URL domains used in this hacking campaign are hosted on DDoS-Guard, a Russian internet infrastructure provider.
- WordPress websites have been the target of several hacking campaigns. Only a few months ago, over 15,000 WordPress sites were breached through SEO-based malware.
