Spam sneaked out via YouTube systems
Entertainment site service used to send junk mails.
Spammers have taken advantage of an email service provided by popular video clip site YouTube, to send out spams
pushing dating sites and offering video game prizes.
The 'Invite your friends' service available on the site allows users to email friends with information on
YouTube's offerings, but has been exploited by spammers in an attempt to circumvent filters - all mails are sent
from legitimate YouTube servers, with the from address 'service@youtube.com'.
Details and screenshots of the technique, and the messages it was used to send, are
here (at Marshall) or
here (at Sophos).
09 October 2007
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