Widespread Email Compromise at Yahoo/Xtra

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#759089 10-Feb-2013 18:04

I got a email to my Gmail just after 2:45PM from my flatmate and they were sitting in the lounge talking to me at the time, There PC was off

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#759094 10-Feb-2013 18:12

Strange that it is only xtra / yahoo people sending out spam and malware emails. I suspect a lot of people have clicked on the links in the email too, as it is from people they know.

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#759098 10-Feb-2013 18:14

johnr: I got a email to my Gmail just after 2:45PM from my flatmate and they were sitting in the lounge talking to me at the time, There PC was off

So, "Kristina" posted a similar comment on the NBR - is that because you flat with her?

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#759105 10-Feb-2013 18:25

mattwnz: Strange that it is only xtra / yahoo people sending out spam and malware emails

Nothing strange. Read previous post - a XSS vulnerability existed and someone exploited that. Apparently visiting a certain blog in a Yahoo! online property while logged in would lead to these folks collecting credentials that could then be used to access webmail and send messages.

They just automated that and things spread like this in no time.

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#759106 10-Feb-2013 18:29

What a debacle this has turned into then ! Nothing quite like dealing with panicked parents who are getting a constant stream of spam emails from trusted people thinking they all have viruses etc. Joy!

It is about time Telecom pulled the plug on this whole Yahoo setup.

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#759108 10-Feb-2013 18:32

Shock: What a debacle this has turned into then ! Nothing quite like dealing with panicked parents who are getting a constant stream of spam emails from trusted people thinking they all have viruses etc. Joy!

It is about time Telecom pulled the plug on this whole Yahoo setup.

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#759186 10-Feb-2013 20:48

I changed my password yesterday, but am still getting Daemon mail failures, but investigation says that still receiving them is to do with the destination mail servers.
eg. I received about 5 this afternoon, all roughly 24 hours after my ones yesterday, and the responses each being "Mail server for "xxx" unreachable for too long".
It seems nothing new has been sent out, but just delayed failure of deliveries as each was still 'sent' at the same time as yesterday's.

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#759195 10-Feb-2013 21:10

If anyone is getting any more recent spam messages (i'm looking at you JohnR

) not necessarily the bounce back messages which may just be a hangover from mail systems re-trying.

I would be very interested to get copies of the emails and they MUST include the full headers of the emails.

If you're not sure what I am talking about Full Headers then that's ok others have forwarded the spam emails to our team mailbox, but if you do know what I am talking about then please include the full headers from the email and send us an email ort @ telecom.co.nz

It's still being actively investigated, and it seems from the threads I have seen that some mail servers are still affected.

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#759207 10-Feb-2013 21:19

freitasm:
johnr: I got a email to my Gmail just after 2:45PM from my flatmate and they were sitting in the lounge talking to me at the time, There PC was off

So, "Kristina" posted a similar comment on the NBR - is that because you flat with her?

Nope her name is Pauline

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#759234 10-Feb-2013 22:50

I'm still having these issues. I got 5 in the last few hours. I'll forward a couple on.

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#759237 10-Feb-2013 22:57

Is that what it is... keep getting spam from my friends.

Should I be worried about my yahoo account being compromised?

I only connect to yahoo via a proper email IMAP client, rather than on line, so if the compromise assumes you are logged in, I should be ok, but how do I tell for sure?

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#759270 11-Feb-2013 05:40

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#759272 11-Feb-2013 05:56

Just got woken up with one to my critical support "get the heck up, server probably on fire" type address. Gee Thanks Telecom.

Two others at the same time to another address.

Received: from nm1.tnz.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com ([124.108.96.28]:46711)
by omicron.elinuxservers.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.77)
(envelope-from )
id 1U4Zkf-0004p6-AV
for ******t@gogo.co.nz; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:27:49 -0800
Received: from [124.108.96.26] by nm1.tnz.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Feb 2013 16:26:57 -0000
Received: from [124.108.96.24] by tm1.tnz.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Feb 2013 16:26:51 -0000
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1001.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Feb 2013 16:26:50 -0000
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 979150.30048.bm@omp1001.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com
Received: (qmail 47564 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Feb 2013 16:26:50 -0000
Received: from 124.108.96.89 by rel108.mail.aue.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:26:50 -0800
Received: (qmail 1443 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Feb 2013 16:26:50 -0000\
Received: from [109.61.123.140] by web96006.mail.aue.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:26:50 NZDT

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#759315 11-Feb-2013 09:11

Interestingly enough, I haven't been a Telecom customer during the "yahoo/Xtra" years, nor used my yahoo account in forever (or at all really.. I used it on the day I created it for one particular purpose and it's not been used since), and mine was compromised.

I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.

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#759322 11-Feb-2013 09:22

I've had a number of customers call me this morning having received spam e-mail from Xtra addresses. The time-stamp on the spam messages is as recent as 8:00 am today.

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