Ukrainians are hacking and illegally redirecting THOUSANDS of sites

Is this case isolated to wordpress only or are other sites affected?

Wordpress seems to be the main target, but that may simply be because Wordpress in the most common blogging platform.

The attacks are definitely not isolated to Wordpress. The Ukrainian criminals send out "hacking bots" to scan millions of sites per day in search of various vulnerabilities. When the bot finds a vulnerable site that it can exploit, it inserts either redirection code or parasite pages with links to the criminals' own essay sites. Either way, the hacked site's traffic gets hijacked and sent to the Ukrainian criminals. For example, check out the search results for "essayworld buy cheap." Keep in mind that they do the exact same thing to literally MILLIONS of Web sites using literally hundreds of millions of possible keyword combinations. They are running an extremely intricate, well-orchastrated, criminal hacking operation. If caught, they can and will spend a very long time in prison.

They also attack other popular blogging and content management systems (CMS), such as Joomla. For example, if you view the source code of the home page of aog.es (one of the hacked sites listed in the Google search results that I linked in my previous post), you will see the following in the header:

meta name="generator" content="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management"

In my opinion, blogging and CMS providers should not be allowed to include such "generator" tags because it is one of the most common ways for hackers to identify potentially vulnerable sites. It makes the hackers' job much easier. It's like screaming at the top of the Internet mountain, "Hey, my security sucks! Hack me first, please!"

@writers2beware
Thank you for the clarification.

If I may, I´d like to add on the scam list Essaysdeluxe.com and Uk-essay.net. Both are operated by what seems to be Ukrainian/Russian scammers...

I'm so disappointed to hear that one folk. But still, thanks for the information and you get everyone warned about them.

New, massive essay paper link injection hack by the Ukrainians

See the google.com/search?biw=1200&bih=1119&tbs=qdr%3Am&q=term+paper&oq=term+paper

From google's recent announcement:

"We've found that this redirect often comes from third-party content embedded in the page, and the page author didn't intend the redirect to happen at all. To address this, in Chrome 64 all redirects originating from third-party iframes will show an infobar instead of redirecting, unless the user had been interacting with that frame."

blog.chromium.org/2017/11/expanding-user-protections-on-web.html

Other browsers should follow. So, if I understand it correctly, it should kill the crucial component of the hacked / redirecting scripts and would make the whole hacking system useless. That would be excellent news, provided links to the destination pages would also be completely devalued.

The problem is that Google cannot keep up with these hackers. Just as Google figures out what to do with their hijacking, they've already moved on to a more complicated version that Google will need to figure out all over again. It is just a never ending cycle of crime and (too late) the punishment. They will always get around Google's safeguards because the experts at Google do not think in advance like these hackers do.

Well, paperduenow.com seems to still be active in the business. That is not to say that the company is doing well though. If I were the student, I would not be comfortable hiring a company that would "evolutionize" my way of writing. I just want them to write the paper, I need the writer to write in a manner similar to mine so my professor will remain oblivious to the fact that I hired someone to write my paper for me. Students these days already have enough problems trying to prove to their teachers that they did not buy a previously written paper, use AI to develop the paper, nor did they hire someone to write the paper for them. All things considered, even with all the tech surrounding students these days, they have more problems with academic honesty than we did during our time in school.

I don't believe that it's realistic to expect any writer to be able to mimic a particular student's exact writing style that closely. More importantly, that would substantially defeat much of the purpose of hiring a professional writer, in the first place, because, by definition, we're mainly in demand, precisely, because we provide better writing than our clients. On the other hand, it's perfectly realistic to ask an experienced writer to adjust the overall level, complexity, writing style, and vocabulary to better match the client's level, in a more general sense.

Professors aren't some kind of super-sleuths with a magical ability to recognize and identify the writing of specific students with the certainty that handwriting experts (purport to be able to) identify handwriting. What professors do notice is sudden unusual and completely implausible improvements in those elements that I just listed above from previous assignments submitted by any student. As long as those elements aren't suddenly conspicuously better, no professor is ever going to risk making accusations that might be totally unfounded.