Page hijacking |
Suppose that a website offers difficult to find sizes of clothes. A common search entered to reach this website is really big t-shirts, which - when entered on popular search engines - made the website show up as the first result:
- SpecialClothes
- Offering clothes in sizes you cannot find elsewhere.
- www.example.com/
A spammer working for a competing company then creates a website that looks extremely similar to one listed and includes a special redirection script that redirects web surfers to the competitor’s site, but shows the page to web crawlers. After several weeks, a web search for really big t-shirts then shows the following result:
- SpecialClothes
- Offering clothes in sizes you cannot find elsewhere… at better prices!
- www.example.net/
- —Show Similar Pages—
Notice how .com changed to .net, as well as the new “Show Similar Pages” link.
When web surfers click on this result, they are redirected to the competing website. The original result was hidden in the “Show Similar Pages” section.
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