Russian Google and Reddit misdirects skewing Google Analytics

Russian hackers target Google and Reddit

With browser hacks sending thousands of Russian visitors to UK and US sites.

Take a look at this screen shot of my analytics dashboard for December

Google analytics hacked

This is a display of the ‘Location’ statistics for December for this site provided from Google analytics.

Google analytics hacked

Analysis

Country codes

As you can see result number 2 is clearly a hack.

It reads – Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!

This is not a country code. It appeared in November in the run-up to the elections. Continue reading “Russian Google and Reddit misdirects skewing Google Analytics”