At least this is new for me... I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients:
Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from= scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my server is a spamvertised web site. Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it? Owen
I recently started receiving these as well for my domain. Would appreciate anyone's input on what the deal is. On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
At least this is new for me...
I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients:
Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from= scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my server is a spamvertised web site.
Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it?
Owen
I too have been receiving these to my spamtrap domain... again any ideas to combat this would be helpful. -----Original Message----- From: Shane Ronan [mailto:sronan@fattoc.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:34 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: Nanog list Subject: Re: New SPAM DOS I recently started receiving these as well for my domain. Would appreciate anyone's input on what the deal is. On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
At least this is new for me...
I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients:
Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from= scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my server is a spamvertised web site.
Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it?
Owen
It's a phishing scam: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7918&rss On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:41:07 -0700 Blake Pfankuch <bpfankuch@cpgreeley.com> wrote:
I too have been receiving these to my spamtrap domain... again any ideas to combat this would be helpful.
-----Original Message----- From: Shane Ronan [mailto:sronan@fattoc.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:34 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: Nanog list Subject: Re: New SPAM DOS
I recently started receiving these as well for my domain.
Would appreciate anyone's input on what the deal is.
On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
At least this is new for me...
I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients:
Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from= scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my server is a spamvertised web site.
Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it?
Owen
-- John
I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients: ... Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it?
If you look more closely at the messages I believe you'll find that they are multipart/alternative, and that the second part gives a slightly modified version of the owa URL. For instance, for my own nethelp.no domain the first part of message says http://nethelp.no/owa/... but the second part specifies URLs like http://nethelp.no.ujjikx.co.im/owa/... http://nethelp.no.ujjiks.net.im/owa/... http://nethelp.no.ikuu8w.com/owa/... http://nethelp.no.ikuu8e.net/owa/... This is a very old trick, seen lots of times in connection with phishing sites, for instance. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
Unfortunately, I only have the spamcop report sent to me, I don't have the original message. What spamcop sends does not include Content-Type headers or the additional parts of the message, only the plain text portion. Unfortunately, it's turnning things like SPAMCOP into a DOS attack against the sites they are hoping to protect when they start treating the initial "advertised" URL as being the "spam advertised site". Owen On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:39 AM, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients: ... Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it?
If you look more closely at the messages I believe you'll find that they are multipart/alternative, and that the second part gives a slightly modified version of the owa URL. For instance, for my own nethelp.no domain the first part of message says
but the second part specifies URLs like
http://nethelp.no.ujjikx.co.im/owa/... http://nethelp.no.ujjiks.net.im/owa/... http://nethelp.no.ikuu8w.com/owa/... http://nethelp.no.ikuu8e.net/owa/...
This is a very old trick, seen lots of times in connection with phishing sites, for instance.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, I only have the spamcop report sent to me, I don't have the original message. What spamcop sends does not include Content-Type headers or the additional parts of the message, only the plain text portion.
Ah, that explains why you didn't know that the underlying URL is not actually to your web site. Here's what the HTML part looks like: tings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the = following link:<br><br><a href=3D"http://nosoliciting.dirtside.com.okqwab.c= om.pl/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=3Dmktts@nosoliciting.dirtsid= e.com&from=3Dnosoliciting.dirtside.com&fromname=3Dmktts"><font size=3D"2">h= ttp://nosoliciting.dirtside.com/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=3D= mktts@nosoliciting.dirtside.com&from=3Dnosoliciting.dirtside.com&fromname=3D= mktts</font></a><br><br>Best regards, nosoliciting.dirtside.com Technical S= upport.<br><br>Message ID#MK8S99OOMIEPVRAZDVIG4</font></p> And yes, we're all getting a crapload of these but most die in the spam filter so we never see them. The message I quoted from achieved a spam-assassin score of 26. Regards, Bill -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
Yep. I've been receiving them from several of my domains for a couple weeks. I've been sending the normal complaints to the provider of the IP space in the header but other than that I have no good ideas about combating it. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 1:22 PM To: Nanog list Subject: New SPAM DOS At least this is new for me... I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients:
Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from= scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my server is a spamvertised web site. Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it? Owen No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.123/2592 - Release Date: 01/08/10 01:35:00
It's a phish people. I've received several of these for zimmy.co.uk, they lasted about a week, then they stopped. I would suggest waiting this out, if after a week or two they haven't ceased then I would suggest contacting the ISP from where these EMails are originating. As for the blacklisting of your host, contact them and inform this is a phishing scam; this is better delegated to blacklists such as Netcraft rather than SORBS or the like. c On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 11:22 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
At least this is new for me...
I host scvrs.org on one of my servers, and, it does not have any outlook or owa services. For some reason, someone decided to try and send this message out to various internet recipients:
Dear user of the scvrs.org mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (x) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:
http://scvrs.org/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=x&from= scvrs.org&fromname=wa2ibm
Best regards, scvrs.org Technical Support.
An now I'm having to clean up various blacklistings thinking that my server is a spamvertised web site.
Anyone seen this before? Any good techniques for combatting it?
Owen
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Aaron Wendel -
Blake Pfankuch -
Chris Fuenty -
John Peach -
Owen DeLong -
Shane Ronan -
sthaugļ¼ nethelp.no -
William Herrin