Email accounts abused too frequently?

albatroz

• June 17, 2018 15:32

During the last month I have noticed that several domains hosted in my CPanel servers had users abused and used to send SPAM. This seems unsual to me so I was wondering if there is any setting I should check in the security configuration of my server.

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  keat63

  • June 18, 2018 12:42

  whats your password strength set to ?

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  cPanelLauren

  • June 18, 2018 19:28

  Hello, The first step in the issue is to identify how the email is being sent - is it a password compromise? If so as @keat63 eluded to you may want to increase the password security or is the issue a problem with a script - in this case, you'd need to identify the specific script sending the mail and remove it along with scanning/cleaning all files that are a part of that account.

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  Remitur

  • June 30, 2018 10:02

  How is calculated "password strenght"? I've just experienced that, if you enter for test@myowndomain.com a password like myowndomain97, system evaluate to it a strength of 96 ... :-O But myowndomain97 (all lowercase!) is a trivial password, and would resist few minutes to a brute force...

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  sparek-3

  • June 30, 2018 12:51

  Strongest password on earth will be useless if the computer or device that is using it is infected with malware or a keylogger that is stealing that information. This is why you (or the person who keeps getting compromised) has to figure out HOW the compromise is happening. Yes that's hard to do. No it's not as easy as clicking a few buttons. But it doesn't mean it should just be ignored.

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