On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google’s Search division.

Google is apparently struggling to contain a spam attack that's been ongoing for days.
Google’s search results have been hit by a spam attack for the past few days in what can only be described as completely out of control. Many domains are ranking for hundreds of thousands of keywords each, an indication that the scale of this attack could easily reach into the millions of keyword phrases.

Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft's Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

SEO poisoning is gaining momentum as threat actors leverage malicious ads to deliver malware through web browser searches.

Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results.