Re: [mailop] SMTP dictionary attacks from 20.42.100.251 (one of Microsoft's IP addresses)

2024-01-02 Thread Marco Moock via mailop
Am 02.01.2024 um 06:34:27 Uhr schrieb Michael via mailop: > blocking AUTH from cloud providers that don't quickly respond to > abuse complaints, is the way to go Blocking SMTP generally from such providers is considerable if they let abusers continue to abuse their services. :-)

Re: [mailop] SMTP dictionary attacks from 20.42.100.251 (one of Microsoft's IP addresses)

2024-01-02 Thread Michael via mailop
For the record,it's all of the Azure, Google, AWS Cloud, Tencent and many other cloud providers that are now abused for BEC Email Compromise, and dictionary attacks. Since very few 'servers' are used for email authentication/clients it is quite effective to block email auth from those

Re: [mailop] SMTP dictionary attacks from 20.42.100.251 (one of Microsoft's IP addresses)

2024-01-01 Thread Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop
> Am 01.01.2024 um 01:46:44 Uhr schrieb Randolf Richardson, Postmaster > via mailop: > > > Is anyone seeing large numbers of dictionary attacks from > > 20.42.100.251 (which is owned by Microsoft)? I'm curious if they're > > engaging in large-scale targeting. > > Doesn't have a PTR, so no

Re: [mailop] SMTP dictionary attacks from 20.42.100.251 (one of Microsoft's IP addresses)

2024-01-01 Thread Marco Moock via mailop
Am 01.01.2024 um 01:46:44 Uhr schrieb Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop: > Is anyone seeing large numbers of dictionary attacks from > 20.42.100.251 (which is owned by Microsoft)? I'm curious if they're > engaging in large-scale targeting. Doesn't have a PTR, so no regular mail

[mailop] SMTP dictionary attacks from 20.42.100.251 (one of Microsoft's IP addresses)

2024-01-01 Thread Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop
Is anyone seeing large numbers of dictionary attacks from 20.42.100.251 (which is owned by Microsoft)? I'm curious if they're engaging in large-scale targeting. I'm seeing more than 2,000 attempts daily from 20.42.100.251 against mail account local-parts like "test" and