Carnegie Mellon University is one of the academic institutions that offer nation’s best graduate programs in computer science. Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute has its own subdomain at sei.cmu.edu. This institute’s website has been under attack by forum spammers these days. Continue reading
| If you take a close look at the screenshot to the right, you may notice a few very odd aspects. A Google search shows three results for a particular medication called tramadol. Wait… We aren’t exactly looking at Google’s search results, are we? If you see the URL, it says “alycium.com/search/”
It took us a few minutes to figure out what’s going on with this screen. It seems that a pharmacy spammer exploited alycium.com’s website and installed a webpage that resembles Google’s search results screen. |
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There are simple reasons why academic institutions keep falling victims to pharmacy spam. Three major reasons are
For example, what is wrong with the screenshot at the top right? Well, this exploitation is about 10 days old. We did inform West Virginia University right after we first reported the incident here. But our notification has apparently been ignored. |
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| We get a few spam comments every day at this blog website. We make news out of them. When the exploited website belongs to an academic institution, we often try to notify them of the exploitation and abuse. |  |
More and more American educational institutions become victims of pharmacy spam. And the latest victims of pharmacy spam include
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