Phishing Email from Fake UMBC IT Desk

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:00:48 -0400
covid19, notice

A compromised UMBC account was used to send phishing emails to over 1200 other UMBC accounts today. These malicious emails, claiming to be from the “UMBC IT Desk,” contained a link to a fake myUMBC login page, potentially allowing the malicious actors to steal any passwords entered on the site. To prevent further malicious activity, DoIT Security has scrambled the password of the account used to send the emails.

From: <name removed>

Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:40 AM

Subject: COVID-19 Update

To:

This is the UMBC IT Desk. Kindly Update your details to avoid beinglocked out of your email account.

Follow the URLbelow to proceed to setup umbc.edu/cas-web/login/Update

IT DeskUMBC

The link leads to this fake login page:

Always check the URL before entering credentials online. Notice that this site is not in the umbc.edu domain, despite claiming to be myUMBC. In addition, you can compare it to the real login page by navigating to myUMBC without using a link to see that it does not match.

As of this writing, approximately 150 people have clicked this link. If you have entered your UMBC password after clicking the link in this phishing email, please change it to something substantively different as soon as possible. Instructions for doing so can be found here: https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867939.

If you do receive any email that you suspect is a scam, please do not click on any URL or reply. Either of those actions confirms to the sender that your email address is valid. Please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu.

How do I forward full email headers?