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Yahoo email sending spam - virus?

Hey guys,

Lately I noticed a lot of yahoo users got hit by a lot of spam. The email sends out from their account to all the yahoo address book recepients. The user where the email came from doesn't have any viruses. The AV software installed with latest definition and nothing cought up in quarantine.

Can that be yahoo servers itself got hacked or could it be something on the recepient side?

Does anyone have same problems?

tim_74

It's probably just someone spoofing email addresses as it's not that tough for spammers to do this.

tiras gans

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But besides that all the recepients addresses from the senders address book are also there..

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Davis McCarn

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Shalom Carmel

Either the yahoo account got hacked, or it is a new CSRF attack.
Has it happened again after passwords were changed?

Davis McCarn

gheist

Spammer do get email lists (from virueses diging addresses from mailboxes) and then permutate users X domains
There was 2 people you do not know whose virus infection turned into your grief.
BTW Yahoo has very well tuned spam filter...

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