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  • Proofpoint Email Routing Flaw Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed Phi

    From Andrzej Adam Filip@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 4 05:59:20 2024
    https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/proofpoint-email-routing-flaw-exploited.html
    Proofpoint Email Routing Flaw Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed
    Phishing Emails
    ; Jul 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Hacking

    An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign
    that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security
    vendor Proofpoint's defenses to send millions of messages spoofing
    various popular companies like Best Buy, IBM, Nike, and Walt Disney,
    among others. […]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail
    Sendmail, Inc was acquired by Proofpoint, Inc. This announcement was
    released on 1 October 2013.[6]


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    A. Filip

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 4 09:55:45 2024
    On 04.08.2024 um 05:59 Uhr Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

    https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/proofpoint-email-routing-flaw-exploited.html
    Proofpoint Email Routing Flaw Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed Phishing Emails
    ; Jul 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Hacking

    An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign
    that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security
    vendor Proofpoint's defenses to send millions of messages spoofing
    various popular companies like Best Buy, IBM, Nike, and Walt Disney,
    among others. […]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail
    Sendmail, Inc was acquired by Proofpoint, Inc. This announcement was released on 1 October 2013.[6]

    Is that in any way related to sendmail itself?

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    kind regards
    Marco

    Send spam to [email protected]

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  • From Sam@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sun Aug 4 09:16:55 2024
    Marco Moock writes:

    On 04.08.2024 um 05:59 Uhr Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail
    Sendmail, Inc was acquired by Proofpoint, Inc. This announcement was released on 1 October 2013.[6]

    Is that in any way related to sendmail itself?

    Yes, this was a company owned by the sendmail principals that provided paid commercial support for sendmail.

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