{"id":585,"date":"2007-05-07T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T08:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=585"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:41:21","slug":"pharmacy-spammer-exploiting-google-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy Spammer Exploiting Google Search Engine"},"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=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>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&#8230;  We aren&#8217;t exactly looking at Google&#8217;s search results, are we?  If you see the URL, it says &#8220;<strong>alycium.com\/search\/<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took us a few minutes to figure out what&#8217;s going on with this screen.  It seems that a pharmacy spammer exploited alycium.com&#8217;s website and installed a webpage that resembles Google&#8217;s search results screen.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/google_pharmacy_exploitation\/alycium_google.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/google_pharmacy_exploitation\/alycium_google.gif\"width=\"180\" height=\"181\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nClick on the button to see how a pharmacy spammer exploits Google&#8217;s image. <a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/google_pharmacy_exploitation\/google_pharmacy_exploitation.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":"<p>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&#8230; We aren&#8217;t exactly looking at Google&#8217;s search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-585","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\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}