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TOKYO (MacHouse) - Here is a website that we ran into at payexchange.net about an hour ago. (See Screenshot 01.) It looks like they deal with e-currency, which we know little about. We didn’t end up at this website because we wanted to buy e-currency. We just followed the link shown in a spam comment. (See Screenshot 02.) Obviously, they’ve hired a spammer to advertise their business. (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - According to Wikipedia, Camera Obscura is the name of a British band. (See Screenshot 01.) It says they are from Glasgow, Scotland. We know little about music. And we never heard of this music band till today. Their official website can be found at camera-obscura.net. (See Screenshot 02.) This website is among a dozen websites victimized in the latest exploitation scheme, which we call ‘?sitemap’ hack exploitation. (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - In our last article, we reported that we had identified 4 websites that are used to redirect Internet users to a fake anti-virus scan website hosted at antivirus-scanner.com, where a computer virus known as Troj/Dwnldr-HDG awaits them. The website of antivirus-scanner.com is possibly hosted by a secretive Dutch hosting company called EuroAccess Enterprises Limited (euroaccess.nl).

So what is THE unique characteristic among these hacked websites? Probably, there is none. At least, we know that four of the victimized websites are run by British companies/individuals. In fact, we are surprised to find out that these four websites are hosted by the same company. It’s rackspace HOSTING. (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - We’ve been reporting a relatively new fake anti-virus scan case for the past two days. Hacked websites all have a common signature shown as ‘?sitemap’ with spam HTML webpages. Accessing a spam webpage at any of the hacked websites is likely to redirect one to the website of antivirus-scanner.com and eventually force him/her to download a Windows-based file containing a computer virus known as Troj/Dwnldr-HDG. (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - In reference to yesterday’s report concerning a fake anti-virus scan website at antivirus-scanner.com, we have asked Sophos to analyze the file that we were forced to download. The following is their reply.






The virus lab has detected it as Troj/Dwnldr-HDG.

Troj/Dwnldr-HDG is a downloading Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/Dwnldr-HDG is installed it attempts to download and run a fake anti-virus tool.

Please see this link for more information: http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldrhdg.html. (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - A cyber scrum group posted a series of spam comments at blogs and forums all over the world. Screenshot 01 shows one of such spam comments that shows 3 hyperlinks. Clicking on any of the links will forward one to a fake anti-virus scan website at antivirus-scanner.com. After a cycle of fake anti-virus scan (See Screenshot 03.), the website visitor will be forced to download a file labeled AtnvrsInstall.exe. (See Screenshot 04.) (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - There are many cyber idiots who vandalize WordPress Support website in order to advertise their websites. The most notorious group is from India. Back in March, somebody posted a spam comment to advertise a web hosting company called Webhostingpad.com. It has turned out that it was a group of indians seeking affiliate money that was behind this incident. There’s a scrap SEO company from India called SEO Services. They also use WordPress Support to advertise their clients’ websites. Today, we found another spam comment posted at WordPress Support. The domain involved with this incident is totallyfree4u.com (See Screenshot 01-3). (more…)

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Let’s see. Why would you need a login system at your website? One good reason for installing a login system is that casual webmasters and Internet users steal digital products through hot links. The following is what happened to us several months ago. We were giving away free web themes for a Mac-only website design application called RapidWeaver. Anyone could download any web theme file with no restrictions. We then found one website (run by a Japanese guy) where they posted links to not our web theme pages but direct link to files themselves so that their visitors wouldn’t have to come to our website. We were totally shocked. So we had no choice but to restrict access to the files to members. (more…)

We initially wanted a PHP script package that enabled us to allocate a certain amount of bandwith to each visitor. Back in November, 2007, we decided to open more than 5 dozen video tutorials to guests. But we soon found out that Bandwidth Manager wasn’t quite suitable for this purpose.

However, we’ve found a different purpose for Bandwidth Manager. There are potential cheaters once in a while who want to cancel their accounts a day or two after payment. Using Bandwith Manager, we can find out if they have downloaded any movies, which is way better than to check the log file to find particular IP addresses.






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