XRumer and Negative SEO Extortion

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Spammers built a tool called XRumer to spam sites. With negative SEO, it has become a weapon for blackmail.

dejan.ai Hello, this is an extortion email. A blackmailer demanded $1,500 to not point 20,000 XRumer forum profile backlinks at our site. Here is the email in full, Google's response to the campaign, and a 2016 follow-up DDoS extortion attempt. (opens in a new tab)