Detect and Remove the WordPress Pharma Hack
I’ve been seeing more and more tweets about strange things happening to people’s WordPress blogs. Apparently, there is a hack out there that effects search results on blogs, making them appear to have relevant pages full of pharmaceutical drugs.
So what does this hack do? From the Pearsonified article referenced below:
The WordPress pharma hack quietly exploits your highest-ranking and most valuable pages by overriding the title tag and by inserting spammy links into the page content. Interestingly, the modified title tag and spammy links are only visible to search engines.
How can I tell if I’ve been hacked? This hack only seems to affect search engines – simply look up your blog in Google and see what type of results show up. If you see pharma related links, then you’re site has been compromised.
Help! I’ve been hacked! What can I do? Check out this blog post from Pearsonified showing how to fix this problem and protect yourself from future attacks.
I think this is a good excuse to go look yourself up. You might not regret it!