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Hackers use Royal Family's website to promote links to porn and casinos
The Royal Family's website is being used by ‘Black Hat SEO’ hackers to promote thousands of links to pornography and other adult content.
Google is investigating after the prestigious royal.uk address was hijacked by spammers posting blurbs in a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English.
Searches on the engine show that the official URL has been ‘malformed’ to link to explicit and potentially harmful content elsewhere on the web.
The majority advertise casino and gambling sites while hundreds link to pornography in the attempt to boost search engine optimisation (SEO).
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/hack...o-promote-links-to-porn-and-casinos-18842533/
The Royal Family's website is being used by ‘Black Hat SEO’ hackers to promote thousands of links to pornography and other adult content.
Google is investigating after the prestigious royal.uk address was hijacked by spammers posting blurbs in a mixture of Mandarin Chinese and English.
Searches on the engine show that the official URL has been ‘malformed’ to link to explicit and potentially harmful content elsewhere on the web.
The majority advertise casino and gambling sites while hundreds link to pornography in the attempt to boost search engine optimisation (SEO).
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/hack...o-promote-links-to-porn-and-casinos-18842533/