Emailvision is a bulk mail company in the suburbs of Paris, France. They are,
in my experience, almost uniquely inept. Nearly all of the mail they send to
my users is clearly spam, sent to addresses on stolen, scraped, or resold lists,
which is pretty impressive in France, a country where selling individuals' personal
information is illegal.
But now, they're fake sending Acrobat malware spam, indicating that they have security
problems, too, and criminals have access to their systems.
The spam below came from their network 81.92.112.0/20. I have told them
about it, but they show no evidence of doing anything about it, or even understanding
what the problem is. ("We will tell our customer to review their lists.") Do not
follow the links unless you want to infect your Windows machine with malware.
As I've noted before, at this point the only reasonable assumption is that any mail
from ESPs is hostile, even from ESPs who, unlike Emailvision, have historically been
well behaved.
Update: Emailvision wrote to me and claims that this was a one-off
hack of a client, and their systems are secure. Given that in every other
case of spam like this, first the bad guys broke into the ESP and stole
a client list and then phished the clients, I find it much more likely
that the same thing happened and Emailvision hasn't noticed yet.
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:13:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Adobe System Incorporated
Reply-To: Adobe System Incorporated
To: a user
Message-ID: <2100000000.48349.1303352036018@p4enginex2.emv2.com>
Subject: Download New Adobe Acrobat Reader Software For Windows and Mac
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- Use the standard for document archival and exchange
To upgrade and enhance your work productivity today, go to:
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Start downloading the update right now and let us know what you think about it.
We're working on making Adobe Acrobat Reader better all the time !
Copyright 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
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