eSoft, a Web security company, researches urls across the Internet to provide up-to-the minute threat assessments on fraudulent sites, according to Richard Stiennon at Information Security Resources. The most notable development of the past week, eSoft reports, has been a spike in fake pharma sites.

Writes Stiennon:

eSoft has determined that there has been a major spike in fraudulent pharmacy sites just this past week. Much like the fake SpySweeper site these pharma-fraud sites present a convincing storefront that appears to sell Viagra and Cialis.

They have a sophisticated shopping cart system and take your money but do not bother with actually fulfilling orders.

eSoft provided me with data on seven different templates they have discovered. The quantity is amazing. In four days last week they detected:

1,104 canadian_pharm_light_blue
993 canadian_pharm_blue
27 top_pharmacy
23 canadian_pharm_white
18 health_sol
6 canadian_pharm_blue2
1 canadian_pharm_p_images

That is 543 of these sites per day over four days — and only for these seven templates.

eSoft reports that many of these sites (one of the suspect templates is pictured at left) can be traced to the Russian mafia. Concludes Stiennon:

“If the Russian Mafia is involved expect to see these stolen credit cards used in so called carding schemes where counterfeit credit cards are manufactured using the data collected from these sites.

“End users will have to be very careful when using their credit cards to purchase anything. The threats to ecommerce are escalating.”

Tags: pharmacy spam, spam

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