[R] Hacked

Wed Apr 18 12:36:34 CEST 2018

Seems it must be the R-list. A horde of ‘solicitation’ emails began arriving about 27 minutes after I posted about not seeing any! Had left work by that time, so did not encounter them until now.

From: Mark Leeds [mailto:markleeds2 using gmail.com]
Sent: April 18, 2018 12:33 AM
To: Rui Barradas
Cc: Ding, Yuan Chun; Fowler, Mark; Luis Puerto; Peter Langfelder; R-Help ML R-Project; Neotropical bat risk assessments
Subject: Re: [R] Hacked

Hi All: I lately get a lot more spam-porn type emails lately also but I don't know if they are due to me being on
the R-list.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt<mailto:ruipbarradas using sapo.pt>> wrote:
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<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

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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<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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:neotropical.bats using gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

Site has been hacked?
Bad SPAM arriving

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