Philippine government website hacked to spike page rank of gambling site
Government (Foreign)
The Asian country’s Agriculture Department site contains concealed malware. Six webpages have been injected with a string of code that drives up search hits for a gambling site.
- Homepage
- “Contact Us” page
- “Advisory Banner” page
- “About Us” page
- Department Mission/Vision page
- History of DA page
“Take note, dear Reader, that visiting the above infected pages will not get you infected; however, you will be contributing to the increase of the page rank of the gambling-related URL we can see in the code,” Malwarebytes explains.