Ohio State University College of Education Website Exploited for Affiliate Spam

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Nowadays, 2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day. And an affiliate spam group exploited the website of College of Education at Ohio State University. Ohio State’s College of Education has its own subdomain, and at least one of its subdirectories is exploited with possibly hundreds of affiliate spam pages. affiliate spam
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Virginia Commonwealth University Website Exploited for Affiliate Spam

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2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day. And another new website victimized for affiliate spam is that of Virginia Commonwealth University. An affiliate spam group took advantage of an abandoned faculty subdirectory and installed possibly hundreds of affiliate spam pages. affiliate spam
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University of North Carolina Asheville Faculty/Staff Website Exploited for Affiliate Spam

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2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day. A new victim is University of North Carolina – Asheville (hereafter, UNCA). UNCA allocates one subdomain (facstaff.unca.edu) to its faculty and staff. And an affiliate spam group exploited this subdomain with possibly hundreds of affiliate spam pages. Continue reading