{"id":545,"date":"2007-04-24T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:55:22","slug":"the-next-victim-of-pharmacy-spam-ncsa-at-university-of-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"The Next Victim of Pharmacy Spam? &#8211; NCSA at University of Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"420\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/ncsa_uiuc_edu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/ncsa_uiuc_edu.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"159\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/virtual_machine_interface.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/virtual_machine_interface.gif\" width=\"174\" height=\"159\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>It is National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois where the idea of Internet was first developed more than a decade ago.  It&#8217;s where NCSA Mosaic was developed.  Sadly, NCSA&#8217;s subdomain Virtual Machine Interface (vmi.ncsa.uiuc.edu) became the next victim of a notorious pharmacy spam exploitation.<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/online_pharmacy.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/online_pharmacy.gif\" width=\"196\" height=\"113\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThis pharmacy spam group seems to have installed, again, a cgi script of some sort at <a href=\"http:\/\/vmi.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/bugzilla\/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=321\">http:\/\/vmi.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/bugzilla\/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=321<\/a> to redirect visitors to a pharmacy spam website at clickdrugs.org.  This pharmacy spam website seems to be run by a Russian (or Bulgarian) organization which identifies itself as SZTU and is located in Saint Petersburg.  Our guess is that this pharmacy spam website will not be around for a long time.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nClick on the button to see the damage that this cyber idiot caused at NCSA. <a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/ncsa_pharmacy_spam\/online_pharmacy.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/graphics\/button.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" alt=\"VTC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}