Following the detection of spammers hacking into legal sites to sell their goods, Sophos has forewarned Web users to tighten their belts against the malicious Spam campaigns, which advertise drug-peddling Internet pharmacies but in fact land users to webpages hosted on hacked innocent websites. While the surfers come in touch of these pages, they are redirected to the bogus online store. The hacked websites in toto make use of PHP, a scripting language, which are utilized by loads of Internet sites, which has gone through critical security flaws previously. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, To the naked eye it looks like a bog standard Spam message advertising medications. But it is actually pointing to a website that is owned by someone who is probably completely unaware that spammers have hacked into their site, and are using it to redirect visitors to an online pharmacy. Website owners have a duty to properly patch their sites against the latest vulnerabilities, or face being exploited by spammers. What’s more, since the web address is genuine, it’s possible more people will be tricked into clicking on the link, giving the spammers more incentive to keep plugging their pills. For the reason that the Spam messages inform on an innocent website instead straightforwardly to the online pharmacy, sites ignorant of the Spam campaign threat getting their repute flawed. Additionally, as the majority of anti-Spam products make use of info regarding the web page informed on as an pointer of whether the message is Spam or not, emails connecting to these hacked legal sites would not generally be spotted as Spam or blocked by web filters.