Christopher
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Hey All,
Came across an interesting write up about unusual traffic from a client of Securi.
What the client thought was a DDOS attack, was infact an increase of fake traffic by Black Hat SEO methods.
To read the full write up: https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/01/hiring-the-wrong-seo-company.html
Anyone here bought some Blackhat traffic and immediately regretted it?
Came across an interesting write up about unusual traffic from a client of Securi.
What the client thought was a DDOS attack, was infact an increase of fake traffic by Black Hat SEO methods.
"Our client noticed some alarming changes in their Google Analytics reports and thought it was a DDoS attack. The website traffic had dramatically increased. This might sound like a good thing to some, however it was clear that this traffic wasn’t normal at all. Our own statistics from the Website Firewall indicated that traffic had sharply increased, but the additional traffic contained no malicious requests and the geo-location did not seem like a typical DDoS attack."
To read the full write up: https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/01/hiring-the-wrong-seo-company.html
Anyone here bought some Blackhat traffic and immediately regretted it?