Re: So now the list server is somehow being used to send out B64-encoded malware?

I looked at it in a text editor. It consisted of two blocks of 
Base64-encoded, neither particularly long.

Oh, well! Email was never designed for real security, anyway.

On 4/22/26 04:50, Marc Joliet wrote:
> I'm no expert on email, but in the case of the one spam message I got through
> this list it looks like the spammer tricked the mailing-list software to send
> the original (rejected!) email to itself.  Probably even by accident, because
> lots of the spam I used to get spoofed the sender to be identical to the
> recipient, so I don't think that's unusual by itself.
>
> Am Mittwoch, 22. April 2026, 09:04:50 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb
> David Kastrup:
>> david <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Just wondering...sorry to bother you, you may now return to your
>>> regularly scheduled interruption.
>> I find that amusing since less than a week ago a post of mine was
>> rejected because it exceeded something like 50kB of size because of a
>> processed audio attachment (something like 250kB or so).
>>
>> So if the malware manages to stay under that limit, it must be coded
>> comparatively efficient for today's standards.
>>
>> Or it is considered important enough that a moderator explicitly gives
>> their ok.


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