[Box-Admins] The vm-dev-owner mail address is currently under spam bot attack

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Thu Jul 20 23:45:35 UTC 2017


Thanks. I decided to block the IPv6 ranges responsible for most of the 
spam, so the spam should have stopped or at least significantly toned down
by now.
Note that qq.com is not the real source of these mails. The sender can 
use any source email address.

Levente

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 04:58:07PM +0200, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Can you post all the headers of one such email?
>>
>> Levente
>
> Attached is a gzipped copy of one of the emails.
>
> My guess would be that this is some kind of attempt to hack into the
> mailing list as a means of spamming the list.
>
> The qq.com domain does not narrow it down much, apparently this is a
> very large email and social media site in China, so blocking qq.com would
> be like blocking google mail.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> Just FYI, the vm-dev-owner at lists dot squeakfoundation dot org address,
>>> which
>>> redirects to my personal mail, is currently under attack by someone
>>> (something)
>>> using a qq.com related spoof address. I am getting a couple of messages
>>> per minute,
>>> so it is somewhat annoying.
>>>
>>> - Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> A typical message:
>>>
>>> X-Original-To: vm-dev-owner at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>> Delivered-To: vm-dev-owner at mail.squeak.org
>>> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:33:39 +0800
>>> Subject:
>>> =?utf-8?Q?=E7=8B=AC=E5=AE=B6=E6=B3=A8=E5=86=8C=E7=B3=BB=E7=BB=9F=EF=BC=8C=E8=BF=8E=E6=96=B0=E7=89=B9=E6=83=A0=EF=BC=8C=E7=A7=92=E9=80=8188=EF=BC=8C7771584.com=20,
>>> ?=
>>> ????????????????????????Q???2946128527?????????????????????????????????????????????
>>> To: vm-dev-owner at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>> From: 418111563 at qq.com
>>> Errors-To: mailman-bounces at lists.squeak.org
>>>
>>> [-- text/html is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>


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