3 ms·
> If a visitor's user agent doesn't match a selected search engine, the browser is redirected either to the hacked website's normal homepage, or to an evidently
by ramenmeal 7y ago
> If a visitor's user agent doesn't match a selected search engine, the browser is redirected either to the hacked website's normal homepage, or to an evidently fake, recently created, online marketing website
Could someone explain this bit to me? Don't follow it.
- Spivak 7y ago1. Site is compromised. 2. When a search engine crawler goes to the site it displays the attackers content. 3 When a ‘normal’ users visits the site it will display the original site or a generic marketing site. It’s a tactic to prevent the original owner from knowing their site was hacked.
- CodeWriter23 7y agoIt’s called cloaking. Spider gets one page, visitor gets a different one.
- walshemj 7y agoAnd search engines do check for this they don't only crawl as Googlebot.