negativeSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-09-08T14:13:51+05:30

BengalSEO SEO Poisoning Campaign Exploits Bing for MayaBot Deployment and Tech Support Scams

#seo poisoning #malware #tech support scams #black hat seo #cybercrime

BengalSEO operates a large-scale SEO poisoning campaign targeting Bing search results to distribute MayaBot malware and tech support scams through manipulated lure pages. The campaign uses Black Hat SEO techniques, traffic distribution systems, and Matomo tracking to redirect users to malicious payloads or fraudulent support scams.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams.

The campaign, discovered by the DFIR Report in March 2026, has been codenamed BengalSEO. It has operated out of the Indian state of Rajasthan since at least 2015, driven by two IT service providers named WeConnect

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