Japanese Spam on a Cleaned WordPress Site: The Hidden Sitemap Problem
While investigating a compromised WordPress site, we discovered a malware infection causing Japanese spam links to appear in Google search results. Although the site had been cleaned, Google was still crawling and indexing spammy URLs, which impacted the site’s SEO and credibility.
Japanese SEO Spam: A Common Threat
Japanese SEO spam is a recurring issue that compromises websites to display spammy content in search engine results. Attackers often inject malicious URLs or sitemaps into a site’s infrastructure to manipulate its search rankings.
