[Mimedefang] [OT?] Random Word Spam
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam at rpi.edu
Mon Mar 12 11:56:12 EDT 2012
Richard Laager wrote:
> We've got a customer who is receiving 1 message per second! that
> consists solely of random English words stuck together (both subject and
> body). This has been happening for 24-36 hours.
>
> As far as I can see, it's coming from hijacked accounts all over the
> place (hundreds or thousands of servers) with varying sender addresses.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this sort of thing?
>
> Any idea how I might combat this?
>
> I'd love to bulk submit these messages and report them back to the
> admins of the compromised servers, if that might do some good.
We just had this happen again. Same MO: ramdom subject and message
body, no links or email addresses in the message, multiple incoming
relays, various recipients, Message-Id starting with "CHILKAT-MID".
Three compromised accounts have been used to send this "spam" starting
Sunday morning. I'm using the Message-Id to trap new accounts.
Coincidentally, we has a phish get through to a number of our users last
weekend.
Mike
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Michael D. Sofka sofkam at rpi.edu
C&MT Sr. Systems Programmer, Email, HPC, TeX, Epistemology
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