Google issued a critical update to its Site Reputation Abuse policy on Tuesday, the culmination of a monthslong effort from the search platform to close a loophole that publishers had been using for years to generate passive affiliate revenue. In… Article Source https://www.adweek.com/media/google-update-site-reputation-abuse-policy-affiliates/
Google site reputation abuse policy now includes first-party involvement or oversight of content Search Engine Land Article Source https://searchengineland.com/google-site-reputation-abuse-policy-now-includes-first-party-involvement-or-oversight-of-content-448432
The soulless son who allegedly slaughtered his elderly mother in their luxury Upper West Side building last year left behind a trail of clues pointing to his guilt, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment Monday. Edward Asencio, 51,… Article Source https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/us-news/son-accused-of-brutally-killing-elderly-uws-mom-left-trail-of-damning-clues-prosecutors/
Conclusion Attackers are increasingly leveraging cloud services and features to further their malicious activities. In this blog, we analyzed a Golang ransomware that abuses Amazon S3’s Transfer Acceleration feature to upload victim files to… Article Source https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/j/fake-lockbit-real-damage-ransomware-samples-abuse-aws-s3-to-stea.html
Ransomware gangs like BianLian and Rhysida increasingly use Microsoft’s Azure Storage Explorer and AzCopy to steal data from breached networks and store it in Azure Blob storage. Storage Explorer is a GUI management tool for Microsoft Azure,… Article Source https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gangs-now-abuse-microsoft-azure-tool-for-data-theft/
Amazon’s cloud division is currently investigating Perplexity AI to determine if the artificial intelligence search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that have blocked it. The Robot Exclusion Protocol, a web standard that specifies which pages should not be accessed by robots and automated crawlers, is being ignored by Perplexity AI. … Read more
Google search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed that no algorithmic actions have been taken by the search engine to abuse the reputation of websites. This comes in response to concerns raised by the SEO community regarding recent traffic drops, which some speculated were related to Google’s site reputation abuse policy update. The speculation was fueled … Read more