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Ghost e-mails are massively sent
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Luis Corrons, Director of PandaLabs, says “It is very certain that this is a group of hackers which is buying the validity of the data base of e-mails addresses. Through the sending of these e-mails, they can determine the active e-mail addresses and eliminate those that are inactive”. |
“On the other hand, the most surprising thing is that the message comes from its own e-mail address; this should not be taken as a mystery since the authors of these activities try to avoid the filtering systems of e-mail addresses that the users can have installed on their PCs since nobody filters its own e-mail addresses” concluded the Director of PandaLabs.
| PandaLabs reported hundreds of ghost e-mails a couple of days ago. These messages’ sender is the same e-mail address as the one they are sent to, that is why the company informs that the most worrying part is learning that unknown person has our e-mail address and can use it for malicious purposes as pishing sent as spams for instance. |
It must also be considered that it is used the spoofing technique to send e-mails to an address different to the original. This does not mean that an intruder barges into somebody’s e-mail account and from there it keeps on sending us e-mails, it means that the intruder changes the true sender for a different one. That is why these people try to look for. As Corrons points out, update their data base to use e-mail addresses which are active.
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