All 13,000 employees of NOAA are receiving spam emails

[lazulicurio]

https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ie62l5/all_13000_employees_of_noaa_are_receiving_spam/

[evanjrowley]

FWIW, NOAA and it's parent Department of Commerce is one of the rare instances of a federal entity standardizing on Google G Suite rather than Microsoft Office 365. Folks there would be seeing this spam in Gmail instead of Outlook (unless they're using a 3rd party email client). Headlines about APTs breaching Microsoft have been common in recent years, but I haven't heard anything remotely similar about Google.

[dark-star]

wait, isn't, like, everyone getting spam emails these days?

I definitely have hundreds of daily spam mails in my junk filter. So what is the actual point here?

[curious_curios → dark-star]

As best as I can tell it sounds like the emails are coming from _within_ the NOAA network, not your usual spam.

[Jtsummers → curious_curios]

Reportedly a distribution list created by (for?) OPM's recent "HR" emails asking the employees to quit.