Re: Possible Intrusion Attempt?

["Anders Reed Mohn" <anders_rm () utepils com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt LaFelero" <ramstryke () yahoo com>
To: <incidents () securityfocus com>

> It's strange that this email triggers the authentication box.  What's
> even weirder is that it populates the username for them, with weird
> names.  The names always seem to change from spam mail to spam mail.  I've
> seen iterations like fluff, skank, morton, taxiway.. you name it.


Well, at first, I would guess it's some kind of password harvesting scheme..
but populating the username doesn't really fit in ..   weird indeed!

> It seems most of the emails are HTML, which can explain a lot.  None of
> them had attachments.  From what I could gather it seems to attempting to
> load a site.  We run Outlook 2000 with SP3 and all hotfixes.

I'd set up a sniffer, and log where that username/password is sent.
I have no idea what this could be, except said information harvesting, so
I'd
try to trace it to the origin.

Anders :)


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