By personalizing phishing emails impersonating the University of Otago, spammers managed to obtain the passwords of four staff members, whose accounts were used to send 1.5 million spam emails in 60 hours.
The spammers didn’t just abuse the clean IP reputation of the University, they also had its mail servers blacklisted thereby causing a DoS attack to its staff and students.
For more, visit: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1723&tag=nl.e539
The spammers didn’t just abuse the clean IP reputation of the University, they also had its mail servers blacklisted thereby causing a DoS attack to its staff and students.
For more, visit: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1723&tag=nl.e539
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