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Re: PSA: change your fedex.com account logins


From: Dan Hollis <goemon () sasami anime net>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 12:58:42 -0700 (PDT)

The one-off email scheme is not predictable. It is randomly generated string of characters.

$ ./randgen
jvtMDluV0lwnlY5O

So you can totally eliminate that possibility entirely.

-Dan

On Fri, 31 May 2019, Jason Kuehl wrote:

Is it possible, yes. I've seen it several times now at my place of work.
Targeted attacks are a thing.

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 2:53 AM Mike Hale <eyeronic.design () gmail com> wrote:

Oh for fucks sake.

Really?

You two are questioning someone who subscribes to Nanog over Fedex?
You really think it's more likely that someone is targeting Dan Hollis
(whoever he is) instead of Fedex leaving something else exposed?

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:39 PM Scott Christopher <sc () ottie org> wrote:

Dan Hollis wrote:

Phishing scheme didn't happen.

fedex has had a number of major compromises so it's not a stretch that
their user database was stolen and sold to spammers.


The other possibility is that your one-off email scheme is predictable,
and someone knows you use FedEx, and that someone is targeting specifically
you, and this obvious phishing email is a red herring for the exploit you
didn't see.

Be concerned.

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