[outages] Crazy amts of spoofing?

Byron Lunz byronlunz at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 16:41:52 EDT 2014


I received one today. Came from an aol user, via aol servers. It looks like
malware on their (windows) computer.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Neil Ticktin <neil-lists at xplain.com> wrote:

> Anyone seeing crazy amounts of spoofing that are going out to what looks
> like address book entries?
>
> In other words, not from your client, not from your server, but spoofing
> an email address that's yours, and going to recipients that look like your
> address book (e.g., grouped by last name and to people you know).
>
> I don't want to point fingers, and I have no evidence of this in any way,
> but it almost looks like a social network site, that may have access to
> address book entries, got hit -- and someone is spoofing big time.
>
> The other option would be a Mac virus hitting address book entries.
>
> Anyone seeing anything this?
>
> Neil
>
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