Fintech landing stack cleaned, performance tuned, and campaign trust restored in one day.
SEO poisoning hijacked paid traffic. We removed malicious scripts, accelerated load times, and armed marketing with a resilient deployment model.
Same day
Recovery window
12 active funnels
Campaigns restored
1 incident strategist + 2 performance engineers
Team involved
35% faster pages
Performance gain
What went wrong
Loose marketing governance and flat deployment controls made it easy for attackers to hijack funnels. We put the gaps in plain view.
- Malicious redirects injected via compromised tag manager container
- CI/CD pipeline allowed direct production pushes without review
- Legacy caching rules masked defacement and slowed detection
Recovery timeline
Every milestone focused on restoring trust with paid media while shipping lasting controls.
00:00
Campaign triage
Coordinated with paid media teams, disabled poisoned redirects, and rerouted high-value traffic to hardened landing pages.
02:10
Malware eradication
Purged injected scripts, rebuilt static assets from git, and rotated API keys for analytics and tag platforms.
04:40
Performance uplift
Refactored image delivery, optimised edge caching, and eliminated render-blocking scripts to claw back SEM quality scores.
07:00
Hardening rollout
Implemented approvals in CI/CD, enforced branch protections, and shipped monitoring for campaign integrity signals.
What the client received
Marketing left with proof of fix, faster pages, and a deployment model they could defend.
Marketing incident brief
Incident summary and ROI impact update tailored for growth and compliance leaders.
CI/CD reinforcement plan
Roadmap for guarded deployments, preview environments, and automated performance gates.
Integrity monitoring pack
Synthetic checks, webhook alerts, and tag governance rules to keep campaigns trustworthy.
Client perspective
"Campaign spend was haemorrhaging. The Hack Doctor crew halted the bleed, sped up our stack, and gave marketing bulletproof talking points the same day."
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