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[LUG] Yahoo email was Re: bad apple: follow up and fall out

 

Agree it looks like bots accessing the web interface, IP addressses typically end 
user like. I had a poke at Yahoo web mail. Nothing immediately obvious, but then I 
agree there is probably some luck involved, although I doubt it is opportunistic 
timing. 

My browser did access 45 different hostnames in the page to compose and send an 
email. Some were CDN servers,  fair enough. At least one appeared to be returning 
empty/corrupt responses but presumably not important. The cookies aren't encrypted 
which surprised me (it being easy improvement to add with no/little coding needed), 
but the values may be, or they might be base64 or similar. I'll look closer when I 
get some more time. 

The diet thing is I think a distraction, this is all about botnet growing. Mostly I 
get malware free responses suggesting it is a kit looking for vulnerable user agents.

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