[nsp-sec] Bounce message backscatter attack against abusemailbox

[Krista Hickey]

>Andreas Lorentzen wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>We had the same thing happen to our abuse@ three days ago. It 
>lasted about 24 hrs.
>It was quite annoying, but didn't cause any real harm.
>

Same thing with us, I didn't do any metrics on it but significant bounce
increase in the abuse mailbox Monday morning indicating someone did a
run with abuse at cogeco. I often wonder if this some silly attempt to
overwhelm our abuse desks to get their spam/whatever runs through...then
again maybe just stupid mistake or laziness.

Krista
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