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Receiving spam from anandtech smtp server?

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Double Trouble

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I received an email just now supposedly from forumadmin@anandtech.com, sent to my email addy that I use specifically for AT. It's spam promoting some garbage site "draglift".

Unless I'm reading the headers wrong, it looks like the mail is actually coming from mail.anandtech.com, sent using a php vbulletin mailer.

I'm assuming I'm not the only one who got it.....
 
Double Trouble said:
I received an email just now supposedly from forumadmin@anandtech.com, sent to my email addy that I use specifically for AT. It's spam promoting some garbage site "draglift".

Unless I'm reading the headers wrong, it looks like the mail is actually coming from mail.anandtech.com, sent using a php vbulletin mailer.

I'm assuming I'm not the only one who got it.....
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I wish you were. This coincides with the "down for scheduled maintenance" message I recieved on the forum at the same time.
 
Good thing I checked here, I was one click away from reporting the spam at spamcop.

I thought it was a forged header or something...
 
If it's any help, I notice that at least viewing single posts (showpost.php) is returning status code 500 (Internal Server Error), though the HTML is as normal. I wouldn't have noticed except that I'm working on a Greasemonkey script with AJAX.
 
I got one also. I thought is was spam and I was right. Spam from here it seems.
 
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Something is very wrong here guys. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it ASAP.
 
Luckly I didn't get the email, but if the affiliate site wasn't posted by the web team, or any of the admins, this matter is worth investigating. Someone could've injected malicious code to get the "affiliate link" in, just a guess.
 
Praetor said:
I wish you were. This coincides with the "down for scheduled maintenance" message I recieved on the forum at the same time.
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That was my announcement. Can't you recognize the writing style? Anyway, and sadly, that announcement is true.

I'm wading into this crapola now. Damn, you do something frivolous like going to sleep at night and look what happens! 😱
 
Perknose said:
That was my announcement. Can't you recognize the writing style? Anyway, and sadly, that announcement is true.

I'm wading into this crapola now. Damn, you do something frivolous like going to sleep at night and look what happens! 😱
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How dare you sleep? DragLift demands answers!
 
Perknose said:
That was my announcement. Can't you recognize the writing style? Anyway, and sadly, that announcement is true.

I'm wading into this crapola now. Damn, you do something frivolous like going to sleep at night and look what happens! 😱
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So it was you who made the Maintenance notice, I should've known 🙂

Your creative writing does ring a bell to me, sounds as if you're speaking from your soul. 😀
 
dennilfloss said:
Found the same email in my junk folder. Have our passwords and other stuff been compromised?
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Disclaimer: IANAA(dmin)

Hate to say it, but consider this a FUCK YES. I'm not intentionally trying to set off a panic here, but if the admin accounts were hacked, and they were, you may as well consider all of your data here compromised, even if superficially it wasn't.
 
I have nuked the Affiliate sub forum and removed all permissions from the account they were using.
 
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