New e-mail attack using valid webmail accounts

[Kenneth Arnold <bkarnold () CBU EDU>]

I discovered a spam attack at our university this week using a valid
webmail account.  The email that was sent out was a classic Nigerian
scam email and the login to send out the email came from somewhere in
Africa.  I managed to stop half of the emails from going out.  After I
disabled the account I saw another attempt to login to the same account
from somewhere in Virginia.

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Brother Kenneth Arnold
Director of Network Systems
Christian Brothers University
(901) 321-4333