If you’ve been getting a lot of spam from AOL emails recently it’s not because you’ve fallen into a time rift and it’s the nineties all over again – the company has confirmed that it has been under an intensive spoofing attack.
The problems started three days ago when large volumes of email, apparently from AOL Mail’s servers, started popping up in inboxes. The spoofed emails included links to the usual spam sites selling diet fads and nostrums, and have been found in very large volumes, so AOL has moved to try and stem the tide.
"Today we moved to change our DMARC policy to p=reject. This helps to protect AOL Mail users’ addresses from unauthorized use,"
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