Lehigh University’s Multiple Department Websites Exploited for Redirection to ANTIVIRUS-SCANONLINE.COM
TOKYO (MacHouse) - Lehigh University is a private university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, some 50 miles north of Philadelphia. (Screenshot 01 shows its main website.) According to its website, it has four colleges and offers 90 undergraduate programs. Students entering Lehigh University have high SAT and ACT scores. Why are we talking about Lehigh University? This university’s websites are among the latest victims of the ‘?prj’ exploitation scheme.
 Screenshot 01 - Source: www3.lehigh.edu |
 Screenshot 02 - Source: www.ece.lehigh.edu |
 Screenshot 03 - Source: www.ece.lehigh.edu |
Lehigh University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department has its website at www.ece.lehigh.edu. (See Screenshot 02.) It appears that there are some webpages beyond an uncertified secured layer. (See Screenshot 03.) This is where an exploiter has installed spam index pages. Screenshot 04 shows one of the URLs where the website is exploited. Looking at the source code of the page, it appears that the websites of other departments are possibly exploited as well. (See Screenshot 05.)
 Screenshot 04 - Source: www.ece.lehigh.edu |
 Screenshot 05 - Source: www.ece.lehigh.edu |
 Screenshot 06 - Source: antivirus-scanonline.com |
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References:
ANTIVIRUS-SCANONLINE.COM: 15 Websites Victimized in the Latest ‘?prj’ Exploitation Scheme
Warning: A New Fake Anti-Virus Scan Website Discovered
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