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Email Bugs
From: Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:15:57 -0600
I've had a slew of friends/family show me the same type of email virus lately. The email is spoofed with their address as the from address. I've seen it on yahoo, hotmail and msn email accounts. The recipients are all contacts in that person's address book but there are no messages in their sent messages. None of these people use any type of email client, but directly interact with their email via the web. The email usually just has one hyper link in the body and a goofy subject line. Some of the links connect to fake pharmaceutical sites but virus total shows the URL to be clean. The IPs in the header all come from the provider so it doesn't appear to be a virus on the computer. I'm wondering if there is some kind of xss bug that maybe an advertisement is using in these sites thats able to harvest and email these recipients? Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Thanks!
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