[CW] Phishing/Spam
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pa0wv at amsat.org
Sat Aug 5 12:35:24 EDT 2017
Fabian Kurz schreef op 2017-08-05 17:53:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 11:39:12AM -0400, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> No worries, this doesn't look like a security breach / hack.
>
> Anyone can simply look up the list owners at the publicly available
> list info (http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw) and it's fair
> to assume that the owners of the group are allowed to post; therefore
> spammers use these addresses to send spam/phishing etc. to the list.
Tks explanation. That is really weak. When somebody sent an email to
cw at mailman.qth.net and uses as sender a spoofed address of one of the
subscribers, it will be distributed among all subsribers. All
subscribers are hidden but not so the list owner(s).
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