[Box-Admins] [Board] Recent spam on the lists

Tue Aug 8 00:13:32 UTC 2017

To me it is just an annoyance, just as long as it is not affecting the normal
list subscribers. So if there is an easy fix that's great, but please do not
put a lot of effort into it just for me.

But I think that Tobias must be seeing some other problems on forum.world.st?

Dave

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:05:27PM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> I suppose we could stop this kind of spam with greylisting. Optionally 
> we might skip greylisting if the sender has a valid SPF record (PASS 
> only (+)).
> We should also reject all emails which FAILs (-) the SPF check. And 
> perhaps do the same to SOFTFAIL (~) as well, since we don't use tags.
> 
> Levente
> 
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> >Adding the sample spam email attachment.
> >
> >On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 07:44:39AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> >>CC box-admins
> >>
> >>Hi Marcel,
> >>
> >>I am quite sure that our lists are under attack, but as far as I know 
> >>nothing
> >>bad is actually getting getting distributed to list subscribers.
> >>
> >>Which lists do you see this on? I am not seeing anything that reaches the 
> >>archives
> >>on http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/ (but maybe someone already
> >>deleted things?).
> >>
> >>For what it's worth, the vm-dev-owner at lists.squeakfoundation.org address 
> >>(which
> >>is redirected to me) has again been under attack for the last serveral 
> >>days. This
> >>happened once before (around July 20). Levente reduced the problem by 
> >>blocking
> >>a range of addresses:
> >>
> >>  http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/box-admins/2017-July/002427.html
> >>
> >>And the attacks stopped entirely after a week or so, then resumed a few 
> >>days ago.
> >>I am attaching an example of one of the recent spam emails.
> >>
> >>I am not sure if this is related to whatever problem you are seeing on 
> >>forum.world.st,
> >>but my assumption is that someone is attempting to gain access to mailing 
> >>lists
> >>in order to use them for distributing spam. Presumably the source is a 
> >>bot of
> >>some kind.
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:41:48AM +0200, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
> >>>Hi, there.
> >>>
> >>>Could somebody block this user "pfizerobataborsi" and delete all its 
> >>>postings (Aug 1 - 6)?
> >>>http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370940 [http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370940]
> >>>
> >>>Same for users "eyangsemar004" and??"eyangsemar003":
> >>>http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370954 [http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370954]
> >>>http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370946 [http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370946]
> >>>
> >>>Same for user "dion":
> >>>http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370800 [http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=370800]
> >>>
> >>>Same for user "kusmiati88":
> >>>http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=a135323403%7Ekusmiati88 [http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=a135323403%7Ekusmiati88]
> >>>
> >>>Same for user "BASERRR888":
> >>>http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=a135289409%7EBASERRR888 [http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=a135289409%7EBASERRR888]
> >>>
> >>>... Wait ... Basically all users that posted on this "global" location 
> >>>here, which dates back to June 5:
> >>>http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-f1294792.standard.html 
> >>>[http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-f1294792.standard.html]
> >>>
> >>>Woah, what's happening? :-/
> >>>
> >>>Best,
> >>>Marcel
> >
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