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1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
   


By personalizing phishing emails (spear phishing) impersonating the University of Otago, spammers managed to obtain the passwords of four staff members, whose accounts were used to send 1.5m spam emails in 60 hours during the last couple of days.
   

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