Google Search Console > Security Issues

[SP1]

Hi all,

*Admin please feel free to remove or add this to any existing post. I have searched the community for any similar questions.

While checking in the Google Search Console, under the "Security Issues" (lone section) I have found Google pointing out specific pages of our website where the message we are seeing is

"Content injection - These pages appear to be modified by a hacker with the intent of spamming search results." The Learn More link takes us to  https://developers.google.com/webmasters/hacked/docs/hacked_with_spam?ctx=SI&ctx=BHspam&rd=1

We've never injected spam code or have not been injected with any spammy code so what baffles me is why would Google pick this up when we have mentioned to them very clear that our code is secure and not hacked.

Has anyone received a similar message and had any luck removing the message correctly?

Thanks in advance!

[BritneyMuller]

Hi Sanjay,

Appreciate you searching the community for similar questions. Do you have comments allowed on that page? Curious if it could have picked up any link spam from that. Agree with Brian to scan your website and reach out to your server provider to see if they have any more details on a potential hack.

Do you happen to also have Bing Webmaster Tools? It would be interesting to confirm if they also picked up any sort of hack.

Hope this helps!

[BrianJGomez]

Have you done a scan of your website to confirm that you don't have any malware or malicious code? That would be the first thing I would do. I have had this issue a few times with hacked sites. The first thing we do is scan the site, clean it, test it and even relocate it to a new host if the server we're on is compromised.