Re: Steady stream of probe email messages.

[Ken Pryor <kdpryor () gmail com>]

I've received those from time to time, but haven't followed up on them. The
ones I've received have been blank, with no html. I thought they might
contain a web bug, but never found any evidence of that. It's been a while
since I got one.

Ken

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Aaron Melton <aaron () aaronmelton com>wrote:

> 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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