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This is quite the HN title/link bait (currently: "3 Lines of Code to Rank a Website to 1# on Google"). The real title of the article is "Pay Day Loan Rankings: The shady tale of Joomla hacks and Drupal leaks". The article is about how a Joomla plugin added malicious code to their plugins to get referral links via spam on websites.

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No, this method actually applies to all languages and all platforms with the same given tactics. Anything with an open ecosystem of plugin/themes where other users can download will be affected.

I've seem some similar activity in wordpress themes a while back. And if the results are as good as this post says, this kind of activity will only keep growing.

The results are exactly as reported. The ones published are from last week, but today the top 20 results are still dominated by websites doing the same.

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