[R] Hacked

Wed Apr 18 01:18:19 CEST 2018

Mee too got nasty email after i responded the r help email.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone

---- Sariya, Sanjeev wrote ----

>I've been receiving nasty e-mails too. No g-mail, but official/work e-mail address. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Rui Barradas
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 5:09 PM
>To: Ding, Yuan Chun <ycding using coh.org>; Fowler, Mark <Mark.Fowler using dfo-mpo.gc.ca>; Luis Puerto <luiss.puerto using gmail.com>; Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder using gmail.com>
>Cc: R-Help ML R-Project <r-help using r-project.org>; Neotropical bat risk assessments <neotropical.bats using gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
>
>Hello,
>
>Nor do I, no gmail, also got spam.
>
>Rui Barradas
>
>On 4/17/2018 8:34 PM, Ding, Yuan Chun wrote:
>> No, I do not use gmail, still got dirty spam email twice.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Fowler, Mark
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 12:32 PM
>> To: Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder
>> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
>> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
>> 
>> [Attention: This email came from an external source. Do not open 
>> attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected 
>> emails.]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Just an observation. I have not seen the spam you are discussing. Possibly it is specific to gmail addresses?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces using r-project.org] On Behalf Of Luis 
>> Puerto
>> Sent: April 17, 2018 4:11 PM
>> To: Peter Langfelder
>> Cc: R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
>> Subject: Re: [R] Hacked
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> This happened to me also! I just got a spam email just after posting and then in following days I got obnoxious spam emails in my spam filter. As the others, I think that there is some kind of bot subscribed to the list, but also perhaps a spider or crawler monitoring the R-Help archive and getting email addresses there. Nabble is a possibility too.
>> 
>>> On 17 Apr 2018, at 21:50, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I got some spam emails after my last post to the list, and the emails 
>>> did not seem to go through r-help. The spammers may be subscribed to 
>>> the r-help, or they get the poster emails from some of the web copies 
>>> of this list (nabble or similar).
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I asked the moderators about it. This is the reply
>>>>
>>>> "Other moderators have looked into this a bit and may be able to 
>>>> shed more light on it. This is a "new" tactic where the spammers 
>>>> appear to reply to the r-help post. They are not, however, going through the r-help server.
>>>>
>>>> It also seems that this does not happen to everyone.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure how you can automatically block the spammers.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I cannot be of more help."
>>>>
>>>> --Ulrik
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> schrieb am Di., 17. Apr.
>>>> 2018,
>>>> 14:59:
>>>>
>>>>> Likely a spammer has joined the mailing list and is auto-replying 
>>>>> to posts made to the list. Unlikely that the list itself has been 
>>>>> "hacked". Agree that it is obnoxious.
>>>>>
>>>>> On April 17, 2018 5:01:10 AM PDT, Neotropical bat risk assessments 
>>>>> < neotropical.bats using gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Site has been hacked?
>>>>>> Bad SPAM arriving
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ______________________________________________
>>>>>> R-help using r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 
>>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>>>>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>>>>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>>>>>
>>>>> ______________________________________________
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>>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>>>>
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>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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