[anti-abuse-wg] Mailman

That's there. However this gang has generally operated by downloading out of date password dumps

--srs

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From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net> on behalf of Andreas Schulze <andreas.schulze at datev.de>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 3:52 PM
To: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Mailman

Am 22.10.2018 um 07:50 schrieb ac:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I will be repeating this post on four Mailman mailing lists....
>
> I received one of these: "I hacked your account, here is your password
> and pay me bitcoin" scam emails - to andre at ox.co.za with the password I
> used on anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net (and three other Mailman lists only...)
>
> As I use different passwords, change my passwords (up to now, except
> for mailing lists), every 7 to 30 days, I am usually able to know
> exactly where, when so that I can go look for the how, etc. As
> unfortunately I used the same email and same password on four lists, I
> do not know which list data has been compromised.

there are two places a list password is stored.
- @mailman itself
- @your-mua by regular "this is your subsription overview" messages sent out by mailman.

if you find a password that (you think) is current, what is the more likely place it was stolen?


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A. Schulze
DATEV eG

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