Google announced yesterday a new notification and remediation system for dealing with hijacked websites that have been compromised to spread malware or scam users.
The new webmaster notification system was perfected during joint research with the University of California, Berkeley, research which was also presented at last week's 25th International World Wide Web Conference.
Google says that
the study analyzed 760,935 hijacking incidents from July 2014 to June 2015, as identified by the company's Safe Browsing and Search Quality features.
The company said it used these security incidents to test and compare a new notification system that informed users their site was hacked.
Contacting webmasters via email yielded the best remediation rates
Google says that when webmasters added their domains to Google's Search Console and the company had the owner's email address on hand, webmasters cleaned out compromised websites in 75 percent of cases if contacted directly by email.
