When searching on Google, the meta description for the Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) website contains offensive and explicit language.
EOBI is a national welfare organization that provides benefits to workers in the private sector. The EOBI, which is under the direction of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, has not yet issued a public statement.
The data that appears on search results page of Google contains unexpected and insignificant information, for example context with explicit language, indicating a potential case of SEO poisoning or a compromised backend, even if the EOBI website itself is still operational and loads without any problems.
The incorrect part can be discovered by merely typing for “EOBI” on Google. Many people who use frequently, companies, as well as old people are now perplexed and worried about this.
Users swiftly criticized what they perceived as a significant cybersecurity breach on a major government portal on social media, especially X (previously Twitter).
A user commented:
“LMFAOOO. This is how you know whoever built the EOBI site was using cracked or nulled WordPress themes riddled with backdoors. It takes a special kind of incompetence to build a WordPress site that looks like THIS.”
According to cybersecurity experts, this might be an instance of SEO poisoning, a tactic whereby hackers insert spam or deceptive content into a website’s metadata in order to influence search engine rankings.
This could happen without influencing the accessible part of the website, making it a challenge for supervisors and users to notice it immediately.
These particular types of offensives regularly take benefit of vulnerability in no longer relevant content management systems or inadequately secured plugins.
Experts encourage EOBI to carry out an extensive inspection audit of its website’s architecture and look for unauthorized changes in its Google Search Console. To update the information provided, they also advise deleting cached versions and asking Google to re-index.
The event emphasizes the necessity of routine security audits, especially for websites in the public sector that hold sensitive data. It is recommended that users should manually confirm the website’s address and refrain from clicking on search engine links until the problem has been fixed.
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