[horde] spammers targeting horde/imp as spamming tool

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> Spammers are using brute force or phished login information to gain
> access to imp, and then sent out spam

This is happening with IMP, as well as several other webmail applications.
I want to stress it isn't specific to IMP, and has been seen with other
apps like SquirrelMail and such.

> Any other comments or thoughts on this trend?

It is an increasing trend, hitting EDU sites fairly heavily right now.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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