Hi,

We had an incident yesterday evening and I'm trying to track down the
root cause.

Spam starting flowing through our mail servers using the credentials
of a user, Alice.  Each message came from a different IP address,
spread over the globe.  Each message is quite clearly spam, trying to
get you to visit an URL.  The from header of the spam message is using
Alice's email address.   The messages I've checked are in the form of
"Lindsey Lohan free from prison".

There are no invalid password attempts for Alice, so I assume one of
their computers was compromised by a virus and their credentials and
outgoing mail server name stolen.  Then a botnet is using the
credentials to use our mail server as a relay.

Sophos is running on Alice's laptop, and there are no signs of a
virus.  But of course the credentials could have been stolen from
somewhere else.

Is anyone familiar with this virus?  The URLs I've looked at so far
are timing out, so I can't check the virus that way.

Thank you.

-- 
Steven Kurylo
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