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E-Mail Attacks

  • 03-08-2003 3:04am
    #1
    ozt9vdujny3srf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭


    Hello there,
    I would like to inform you about important information regarding your email address. This email address will be expiring.
    Please read attachment for details.
    ---
    Best regards, Administrator

    Above is a mail i just got on my o2 e-mail accound, from the address admin@o2.ie. The attatchment was blocked by my virus scanner.

    E-Mail attacks are becoming more and more frequent by the looks of things, whats irritating though is that they are filtering there way through to places other than big providers like yahoo and hotmail.

    What has taken me by surprise recently is the subtlety of these attacts, in retrospect the e-mail doesnt exactly look very officious but i did try and opent the attachment so it fooled me. I know you security guys are probably well up on all this but on a normal user like myslef, this is something new (on o2 anyway, the reason i use them is they rarely get spammed with junk / virii).

    Hope this is in the right place :)


Comments

  • #2
    pdogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭pdogs


    Hi. One of the problems with both spam and email viruses is that the "From" address can very easily be spoofed or forged. If you dont believe me just go into OE and temporarily change your own Account's "From" and "Reply To" values and then send youself an eMail. Remember to set them back when you have finished.

    Unless you are expecting any attachments - never go near them until a sender, you know or trust, confirms their authenticity. Even then it is a wise precaution to save to the desktop, rather than just open it, and then easily scan it with an up-to-date antivirus by RClicking on it and choosing "Scan with.."


  • #3
    pdogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭pdogs


    Read THIS from Microsoft and you will see that you haven't kept your security updates up-to-date - for which see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-014.asp


  • #4
    crowbar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭crowbar


    sadly the chance of getting spammed these days seem to be proportional to the number of times your e-mail address appears on the interweb + the number of mailing lists you're subscribed to.

    most isps have an e-mail address to send stuff like that to, you could try forwarding your message in this case (with headers) to abuse@o2.ie - i guess given it's spoofed from an address that looks like an admin address of theirs they might look into this one.


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