Ask HN: What's going on with all these German Websites?

[achn04]

Recently I was searching for a few VPN related topics on DuckDuckGo. On the search result page I noticed lots of random german websites with a sub-page about the topic I was searching for - but they all redirected to bestvpn1.com. All these websites do not have any correlation with VPN, internet, privacy, or whatever. For example: Search for "vpn dnscrypt". Few other search keywords lead to such result pages. Whats going on here? It's also interesting that all these websites do not work at the moment, except their sub-pages that redirect to bestvpn1.

[slater]

Looks like those .de sites have been hacked

[detaro → slater]

Yes. common pattern, hack a site or its DNS and add spam to fill search engines.