Cloacking Technique Used by Hackers

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Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content to human users and search engines. In my recent experience, our site was hacked, and the hacker used cloaking to make the hack harder to detect. 

For real-time example below, the hacker showed the page about "Tennis skort in black" to search engines, but showed a different page about "Traffic control service" to users.

Tennis skort in black" to search engines:
Content to Search Engine Eyes

Traffic control service to users

Content to Human Eyes


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