Imageshack Swaps Spam Pages for Scam Alerts
Summary: Spammers were promoting rogue pharmacy sites through images uploaded to free image hosting service Imageshack, and the company replaced those images with scam warnings. Imageshack co-founder Alexander Levin said the swaps are not automated, and that using a honeypot and rudimentary analysis the company found over 300 images uploaded in this way and replaced them within an hour of being reported.
What you should know: Levin said the replacements require someone to supply image links, so the defense depends on a honeypot and outside reporting rather than automation - and the spam emails themselves carried the Imageshack-hosted images, leaving the host blind to what those images linked to without a copy of the actual spam.
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