Re: SMTP attacks, anyone ?

[Mike Iglesias <iglesias () UCI EDU>]

On 10/10/2012 03:03 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote:
> Both the users in question deny "risky network behaviour" and are fairly
> clueful - would not fall for phishing, do not frequent cybercafes etc.
> Their passwords (now changed of course) were robust enough not to fall to a
> few hours of "John the Ripper" so I doubt they were trivially guessed.

They may have had outdated software on a system they used (like Flash, Java,
Adobe Reader) that was leveraged by a web site to gain control of the system,
install a keylogger, and had their password(s) captured.  This doesn't
necessarily need "risky network behavior" to happen - it could be an ad server
that has been compromised and is distributing attack code with the ads it is
serving, or something along those lines.


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