Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we have successfully eradicated the issue. Google search results should no longer return adds relating to pharmacies selling viagra. We would like to thank members of the community who pointed us to pages that were corrupted and count on your continuous support. We remain at your disposal. 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.
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. > > > >
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