San Diego State University Website Hacked and Exploited
TOKYO (MacHouse) - San Diego State University has its website at http://sdsu.edu. (See Screenshot 01.) There is a subdomain website at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu. ROHAN Academic Computing WWW Server seems to be used to host webpages of University’s students and faculty. (See Screenshot 02.) They have a groupware PHP software script called Tiki 1.8.5 - Polaris at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/tikiwiki-1.8.5/. (See Screenshot 03.)
 Screenshot 01 - Source: sdsu.edu |
 Screenshot 02 - Source: sdsu.edu |
 Screenshot 03 - Source: sdsu.edu |
An organized cyber criminal group appears to have hacked and exploited ROHAN Academic Computing WWW Server. They have installed ill codes/pages so that they can redirect Internet users to other sponsor websites.
 Screenshot 04 - Source: sdsu.edu |
 Screenshot 05 - Source: sdsu.edu |
 Screenshot 06 - Source: sdsu.edu |
The cyber criminal group seems to have installed ill codes right under the subdirectory of tikiwiki-1.8.5. So whether you access http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/tikiwiki-1.8.5/2005/ (See Screenshot 04.) or http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/tikiwiki-1.8.5/555555555555555/ (See Screenshot 05.), you will eventually end up with similar spam ad content. (See Screenshot 06.)
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