BotID uncovers hidden SEO poisoning
BotID now detects sophisticated SEO poisoning attacks where legitimate bots are manipulated into crawling malicious content. This helps protect sites from years-old attacks that generate suspicious traffic patterns.
Your traffic is spiking and you spot suspicious bot activity in your logs. You deploy expecting to find malicious scrapers, but the results show verified Google bots. Normal crawlers doing their job. But then you notice what they're actually searching for on your site. Queries that have nothing to do with your business. What do you do?BotID
This exact scenario recently played out at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. What they discovered was a years-old SEO attack still generating suspicious traffic patterns.
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