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MarkGiles
Posted on: Thursday, August 19th, 2010, 6:54am Report to Moderator
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During August 2010, Yahoo has come under a redirection abuse attack by the purveyors of Canadian Pharmacy. This is a fraud operation, and is as Canadian as caviar. There is no doubt that this operation stems from Russia. The evidence leads to one particular criminal in particular, who has been unmasked and publicly revealed as Igor Gusev.

Evidence about this pharmacy fraud exists all over the Internet. One location is the crime sheet at spamtrackers.eu -
>> http://spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php/Canadian_Pharmacy <<

It is a shame to see YAHOO! being so slow to act to curb ˙this abuse. One spam research organization that runs a honey-pot to trap spam has detected over ˙7,300 cases of distinct URLs from yahoo groups between August 9 and August 18. ˙Sorted alphabetically by URL, they range from
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aadouqetr/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aafrmgfsjcq/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aagwdtrmu/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aahjqtz/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaibdycksg/message
to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zzsrbw/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zzvurufnll/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zzwanwodvt/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zzxnqkvxib/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zzzhk/message
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zzzos/message

They display a >> common image << in a jpg advertising the usual Viagra. Click on the image and you get sent to one of a small set of Igor Gusev's "Canadian" Pharmacy sites


All Yahoo needs to do is to scan all recently added sites and remove all that contain the redirection code to the target sites.

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MarkGiles
Posted on: Friday, August 20th, 2010, 3:46am Report to Moderator
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McAfee Site Advisor has several reviews that provide more information about this massive abuse attack. For example
zseuduywlfb review
zsnvwarcp review
zsjwhcr ˙review
zsfxfunhlvnz review
zsfpeh review
zseuduywlfb review
zschno review

The Yahoo Groups abuse is also highlighted in the spamtrackers wiki
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