Re: Steady stream of probe email messages.

[Aaron Melton <aaron () aaronmelton com>]

David,

Are these messages in plain text or HTML format?

Could they be imbedding objects in the HTML to do reconnaissance of the
system/network?

Aaron

On 7/20/12 7:29 PM, David Kovar wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> A mid-sized high tech client got a new CEO a few months ago. Since coming on board, he's received a steady stream of 
> probe email addresses from a wide variety of throw away email address. The addresses are most often Gmail accounts 
> with random letters for the name and for the address. The subject line and message body are often blank, but they 
> occasionally contain "Hello". There is no malicious payload. No other messages arrive from the same address to any 
> employee and the sender's address doesn't show up via any searches I've conducted.
>
> Any speculation on the purpose of these messages?
> Any ideas on how to trace them back to someone?
> Any ideas on how to stop them?
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> -David
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