tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427077309508255896.post7368959505407838881..comments2022-04-01T17:04:07.347-07:00Comments on Wardine's Wrock: Virgin Media Cases of Stolen Email Addresses Used for Spoofed SpamWrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17362260970806998299noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427077309508255896.post-56071815787387706122016-05-10T14:10:17.101-07:002016-05-10T14:10:17.101-07:00Indeed, what characterizes this problem is a small...Indeed, what characterizes this problem is a small percentage of email account holders at any one email provider whose correspondents are receiving spoofed email. While AOL cited "about two percent" in their April 2014 episode, more recent cases seem to involve a small fraction of one percent, suggesting that affected users share some sort of behavior in common which has left them vulnerable. The obvious possibility is giving away user names and passwords in response to a phishing email. I'm not convinced that is the explanation since I've not heard of any evidence that the passwords have been used to send spam directly from the spoofed accounts, the typical consequence of falling for a phishing attack.Wrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17362260970806998299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427077309508255896.post-87997570577558233862016-05-10T14:07:06.373-07:002016-05-10T14:07:06.373-07:00Number of VM customers with at least one email acc...Number of VM customers with at least one email account = 5.2 million approx. Number of people complaining that VM has been hacked = 2 to 3 hundred. Do the maths and you don't need to be an expert in probability theory to conclude that there has not been a large-scale hack.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com