Following the recent Burj Khalifa Google update, there has been a rise in spam and even hacked content on Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Google officials are saying that this sudden increase in malware-infected results is not down to the recent updates that have been undertaken on the Google algorithm. So, what is causing this to happen and why should we be worried about this? Obviously, we should to be worried about this, as no one wants to come back from their weekend off and find out that their website has been compromised by cyber criminals. As well, this is extremely harmful for SEO, as Google penalises your website because of this, and displays a ‘This site may be hacked’ message on your search results. Not only will this affect how many people visit your website, it will also affect your effective SEO, as Google will be reluctant to show results that do not provide users with relevant content, and especially if the content has been hacked in the past.