TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you are a Mac user, you should have heard of a web site called MacUpdate. It’s a very popular web site where you can browse Mac software titles. This web site appears to be currently flooded by Chinese spam. If you enter the information page for a software title called ACLr8, you will see a suspicious site advertisement there. (See Screenshot 1.) This site advertisement is posted by someone who goes by the name of Xiao Mimjj. If you click on his or her icon, you will see the same site advertisement over at least ten applications. (See Screenshot 2.)

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The web site sponsoring this spam advertisement seems to be run by a Chinese vender. Their web site is located at www.netetrader.com. And its domain registration form suggests that they are from China.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you read news through CBS Interactive websites including CNET News and CBS News, you may have seen comments where spammers advertise theirs or their client’s products. These days, Asian online merchants appear to hire career spammers to launch an aggressive ad campaign to sell bags, shoes and other name-brand products, targeting CNET visitors. Oh, wait… Isn’t VersionTracker part of CNET group, too? That’s right. VersionTracker, a popular Mac-related website, has also been part of CNET group since August, 2007. So it is possible that you may see the same kind of spam ads at VersionTracker, right? At least, that’s what Screenshots 01 and 02 show.   Continue reading →