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Re: malware warning


From: L F <liz.fazekas () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:13:53 -0400

Brothers the latest thread is direct reference to ROGERS - CANADA   -July
08 2022 outage..........   and My Ref in General..............



NANOG can be considered " Com Pro Mised"...... sad.......... but .........
True!

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 8:10 PM Matt Corallo <nanog () as397444 net> wrote:

I get quite a bit of spam that is a "reply" to old NANOG posts (some
dating back a year or more).
Seems to only happen on some specific threads, dunno why though.

Definitely recommend using a nanog-specific alias and auto-spam-folder'ing
anything to that alias
that isn't CC nanog@nanog, that seems to get rid of it.

Matt

On 7/18/23 5:02 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
malware email is so common i normally do not warn of it.  but, in this
case, the attacker is extracting quotes from nanog and luring folk into
clicking.  e.g.

From: takahashi () fukushitrust com
Subject: Re: jon postel
To: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:01:47 -0700

Hello!

We would like to present to you several alternatives for presentations
and find out your thoughts and
opinions, please let us know whatever you think about it.

https://dognibs.com/8jh/ogr/g0h436ttqbw

Waiting for your reply

  > Does anyone have any stories about working with or near John they >
would like to share with the
  list? It would definitely make my day > to hear more about the early
internet somewhere around i have a
  protocol violation ticket he issued. --- Who says that routing
unallocated address space is ungood? --
  Randy Bush Routing unallocated address space is ungood! -- Jon Postel
randy

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and

From: office () daimontrade com ua
Subject: Re: Reverse DNS for eyeballs?
To: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 02:56:36 -0700

Hello,

Modified paperwork regarding For this month. Kindly read through it
attentively.

https://soocoop.net/e24/1s0/7ckl0icu7h

We appreciate your attention.

  > I would say the absence of reverse DNS tells useful info to
receiving > MTAs - to preferably not
  accept. yep



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  Liz *******
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