[pchelpers] News:Australian Web Host Hit by Russian Hacking Scam

December 22, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – The online edition of The
Australian newspaper recently reported an Australian web host as being
hit by a Russian black market hacking scam. The scam is designed to
artificially improve a website’s ranking in key search engines.
Melbourne-based MD Webhosting (http://www.mdwebhosting.com.au/)confirmed
its servers were hacked and malicious code added into customers'
websites. 

The scam is relatively sophisticated. A series of links are added to a
website’s infected pages, creating ‘link farms’. Many of the links in
the link farms direct back to target websites, some run by
pharmaceutical companies. This artificially increases the target
website’s apparent popularity and therefore improves its ranking in
search engines such as Yahoo! and Google. According to MD Webhosting,
between 5 and 10 per cent of 20,000 customers were affected by the
malicious code.

More here:
http://www.hostsearch.com/news/md_webhosting_news_6716.asp
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John Durham
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Server hosted on Ubuntu 4.10
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