{"id":587,"date":"2007-05-07T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:39:54","slug":"hundreds-of-affiliate-spam-pages-discovered-at-california-state-university-chico-campus-progressive-student-union-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Affiliate Spam Pages Discovered at California State University Chico Campus Progressive Student Union Website"},"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><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/csuchico_exploitation.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/csuchico_exploitation.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"173\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/cucsur.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/cucsur.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"173\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nAn affiliate spam (pharmacy spam, replica spam, insurance spam, finance spam&#8230;) group has exploited several websites.  The exploited websites include academic institutions such as <strong>California State University Chico Campus<\/strong> (www.csuchico.edu) and <strong>Universidad de Guadlajara Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur<\/strong> in Mexico (www.cucsur.udg.mx).  A series of affiliate spam exploitations has hit the California State campus especially hard.  At its Progressive Student Union website (www.csuchico.edu\/psu\/), hundreds of spam pages have been discovered.  <!--more--><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><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/csuchico_edu_psu.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/csuchico_edu_psu.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"173\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/google.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/google.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"173\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThe websites that finance this affiliate spam group include CASINOSE FINANCIAL (http:\/\/casinose.org) and COSAMOZA.COM (www.cosamoza.com).  Furthermore, the affiliate spam group has used multiple domain masking services to manipulate URLs.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/spam_comments.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/spam_comments.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"127\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nClick on the button to see how these websites have been exploited. <a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/affiliate_spam_05_06\/affiliate_spam_0506.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>An affiliate spam (pharmacy spam, replica spam, insurance spam, finance spam&#8230;) group has exploited several websites. The exploited websites include academic institutions such as California State University Chico Campus (www.csuchico.edu) and Universidad de Guadlajara Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=587\">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-587","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\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}