Tracing Spam: Diet Pills from Beltway Bandits
Summary: A spam email advertising celebrity diet pills, sent April 12, 2017, was traced through its headers to dan@gtacs.com, a domain belonging to the Trace Systems GTACS Team Portal, a contractor providing tactical communications systems to the DoD, DHS, and Intelligence Community. Anti-spam expert Ron Guilmette attributed the compromise to a Romania-based spammer who has been tracked since September 2015 and composes messages with a telltale signature from an old version of Microsoft Office.
Bottom line: Guilmette noted that if the spammer understood the value of the stolen login credentials, Russian or Chinese buyers would likely pay more for them than years of spamming would earn - credentials taken from a contractor building military-grade communications systems.
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