Malware
In one sentence
Code injected into a site to harm or deceive the people who visit it.
Analogy Mental model
Poison in the food. The customer becomes ill and the restaurant is closed.
In practice What you actually do
Read the security report in Search Console, scan with a reputable service, remove the injection rather than the symptom, then request a review once it is genuinely clean. Change every credential afterwards, because the entry point is still open.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Cleaning the visible payload without finding how it arrived guarantees a second infection. The usual routes are an unpatched plugin, a stolen admin password, or an old FTP account nobody disabled.
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