{"id":600,"date":"2007-05-09T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T00:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-05-27T00:43:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T08:43:44","slug":"virginia-commonwealth-university-website-exploited-from-affiliate-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Commonwealth University Website Exploited for Affiliate Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>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.  <\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_virginia_commonwealth_university\/virginia_commonwealth_university.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_virginia_commonwealth_university\/virginia_commonwealth_university.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"164\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot from www.vlc.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Affiliate spam criminals advertise anything ranging from online prescription drug stores to porn websites.  Their goal is just one.  They just want to earn commissions.<\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_virginia_commonwealth_university\/vlc_faculty.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_virginia_commonwealth_university\/vlc_faculty.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_virginia_commonwealth_university\/vcu_affiliate_spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_virginia_commonwealth_university\/vcu_affiliate_spam.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=600\">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-600","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\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}