Battling the Zombie Web Site Armies
Summary: Anti-spam activist Peter Bennett discovered on Nov. 11 that his own site had been infected through a zero-day bug in OScommerce and was part of a botnet of at least 1,200 compromised sites sending roughly 25 million junk emails a day. The hacked sites mainly advertised three rogue pill operations - MyCanadianPharmacy, Canadian Family Pharmacy, and Canadian Health&Care Mall - with the last tied to the EvaPharmacy affiliate program.
Why it matters: The botnet ran only once a week or so before shutting off, and the article notes federal and state government sites are frequently compromised and hijacked by spammers for months or years on end - including USAID hosting dozens of pages promoting rogue online pharmacies.
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