{"id":2204,"date":"2016-09-20T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2016-09-20T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:46:02","slug":"gmailgoogle-mail-apps-being-spammed-book-enteries-100-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/gmailgoogle-mail-apps-being-spammed-book-enteries-100-times","title":{"rendered":"Gmail\/Google Mail Apps being Spammed Book Enteries 100+ Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-368 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/googleapps1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"googleapps[1]\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Recently I had a user get in contact with a problem, that they had received\u00a0thousands of emails from different email address&#8217; of nonsense. Sure enough after checking this was true. It seems that someone was bulk sending paragraphs of a book to this users , new email = new paragraph x 1000 + Interesting , was this just an email bomb or something else?<\/p><p>So sending emails from a book is a new way for spammers \/ attackers to get around the spam filter , they were sending from legitimate created Gmail\/Yahoo address even though they where for email spams.<\/p><p>Upon investigation, the emails had stop being received\u00a0about 2 hours before the user contacted me , any new emails were not coming through which means the user has hit gmails receiving\u00a0limit\u00a0https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/1366776?hl=en<\/p><p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p><p>This is a sign that the attacker has reset an account password somewhere and wants the email to notify you this has been done to get &#8220;lost&#8221; so the user doesn&#8217;t know he&#8217;s being attacked until its too late!<\/p><p><strong>How to stop this?<\/strong><\/p><p>You will need to purchase Google Apps Premium and enable the Post \u00a0Ini\u00a0filter which can detect emails bombs<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/enterprise\/static\/postini\/docs\/admin\/en\/admin_spe_cu\/conn_auto.html<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had a user get in contact with a problem, that they had received\u00a0thousands of emails from different email address&#8217; of nonsense. Sure enough after checking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1603,952,1605,1601,1602,1604,916,1606],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-book-enteries","tag-email","tag-email-bomb","tag-google","tag-limit","tag-receive-limts","tag-spam","tag-spam-bombed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}