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vntok • yesterday at 8:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Surely those addresses are compromised in most cases where the server itself is compromised?


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Aachen • yesterday at 8:50 PM

Very few people host email, and even fewer in the same VM as where their website is. I would be surprised if this is the case for even 1% of the sites, and attackers probably are exploiting sites by the hundreds, not babysitting and monitoring the email traffic of one of them to quickly delete any vulnerability reports coming in