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Why is there a link to "Fast Online Payday Loans" in the center of that page?

And "National cash advance".

Somebody should tell him that his website appears to have been compromised by very low-end spammerz.



Not seeing that here. Perhaps the compromise is on your end.


It's subtle, you probably missed it:

  $ curl -s http://www.slrn.org | egrep Payday\|National
  Davis has returned to develop slrn again&nbsp;<a href="http://fastonlinepayday.com/">Fast Online Payday Loans</a> and after much work has
  subscribe both slrn-admin and slrn-user <a href="National-cash-advance.html"> National cash advance</a>. For questions about slrn that


Wow I did totally miss those. I was looking for banner ads or something. Scanning over the page I didn't even notice those bits of text.


Same. The link is HTTP so it looks like GP is getting some sort of malicious ad insertion.


I see it on two different networks. They’re not big ads, just hyperlinks subtly inserted into the text.


Yeah, I tested multiple networks. It's not on my end.

archive.today sees it too:

https://archive.vn/JOBcZ




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