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On May 21, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Neriah Sossou wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > On March 31st, we were advised that AFRINIC's website was probably hacked as > several links on quite few pages showed ads of pharmacies selling viagra. > > Further investigations revealed that our website was not in fact defaced but > that we were victim of the Google Condition Hack. As you may know, this hack > is particularly insidious as the hacked code is not always visible to human > eyes and is not picked up by regular browsers but instead by GoogleBot or > crawlers. It is therefore only seen via Google search engine listings of the > website. > > The correction process of the issue is quite arduous as it entails, in > addition to sanitizing the website, involving Google's robots to re-crawl the > website. > > We have gone through those steps with mitigated success and have escalated > the issue to Google's team. > We expect to hear from them quite shortly. > > In our continuous effort to provide great services to the community, we > commit to informing you as we seek to swiftly resolve this issue. If you > happen to come across pages on our website that display the add, please > contact [email protected] > > Best Regards, > > __________ > Neriah Sossou > Head IT & Engineering, AFRINIC Ltd. > t: +230 403 51 00 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: www.afrinic.net > facebook.com/afrinic | flickr.com/afrinic | youtube.com/afrinicmedia > ___________________________ > Join us at AIS14 / AFRINIC20 in Djibouti, 25 May - 6 June 2014. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/announce
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