A U.S. web hosting provider admitted that hackers have invaded dozens of web pages
of government, educational and financial sites through a software flaw to promote online rogue
pharmacies.
Brian Krebs, an investigative journalist, reported that a customer of a Utah based web site host provider exploited a bug in a web site
administration tool used by a majority of hosting providers to ultimately
redirect visitors from these institutional websites to online stores selling prescription drugs without
prescription requirements.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down numerous pharmacies selling fake drugs in Benue state.
Read MoreA new study shows online rogue pharmacies using North American and Western European web hosting while fulfilling orders from other regions of the world.
Read MorePolice questioned Kashmiri hospital employees after an infant allegedly died from an injection with expired medication.
Read MoreA Northeast Florida pharmacist has been charged with the theft of 7,000 prescription painkiller pills from a Rite Aid drug store that are still missing.
Read MoreThree people are suspected of stealing mail packages, some of which including medicine deliveries from Gwinnett County, Georgia homes.
Read MoreArgentinian authorities are continuing their two year investigation into the fake drug syndicate that infiltrated the Argentinian workers’ unions.
Read MoreAnti-counterfeiting specialists believe that medicine counterfeiting will increase in 2011. Pharma IQ conducted a survey in October 2000 of 1000 medicine anti-counterfeiting experts. More than 60% stated that the threat of fake drugs will increase in 2011. Experts are concerned about the rate of growth in emerging markets in Asia as well as internet sales…
Read MoreNigerian police intercepted a pharmacist storing fake medicines in plastic buckets, including ones that had not been legitimately produced in more than nine years.
Read MoreFilipino lawmakers are seeking strong anti-counterfeiting legislation after a national report announced that one of every ten drugs is fake.
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