Re: Sudden activity on smtp port
From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 12/16/02
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From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:44:50 GMT
In article <atl4dp$f38$1@pulp.srv.ualberta.ca>, Michal Jaegermann
<michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>Yes, I realize that these are most likely spammers but I thought that
>most of open mail relay vanished quite a while ago and tries of that
>sort were before very rare. Hence I am a bit puzzled by this sudden
>surge in such activity. Some new way to exploit so far unknown weakness
>in mail daemons? Any hints or a new info?
Probably some spammer just released a new tool to port-scan for SMTP servers,
rather than trying to hunt for open relays by other means.
Alun.
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