Re: sasl spam?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:16:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.isp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07.10.13 15:42, Marek Podmaka wrote:
>During last week we had 2 different email accounts compromised and
>used to send thousands of spams via our mailserver. Users were
>authentificated via SASL and connections were from many different IPs
>(different countries), so it looks like some botnet. But both users
>had 8-chars random password, each IP is limited to only 5
>unsuccessfull SASL attempts via fail2ban, so I guess there must be
>some kind of virus in the wild which is stealing email passwords from
>users computers...

do you require or at least provide SSL/TLS encryption for SMTP users?
While possibility of such malware is quite high (there was already malware
stealing FTP passwords), it may not be able to sniff on encrypted
connections

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