Warning: Email Phishing Attacks Targeting Faculty & Staff

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:48:42 -0400
security

DoIT continues to receive reports of faculty and staff receiving that is part of a targeted "phishing" attack to steal your username and password information or infect your computer.

One recent email that a number of faculty received appeared to come from Blackboard, and is listed below. DoIT will not give out our email lists to 3rd parties and it would always come from someone in DoIT.

The message below does not have the Link active, however, in the original message if you took your mouse and hovered it over the link for "Click here to sign in and revier this article now." you would see the web site is not Bloackboard.com

Subject: | New School Article - Important
Date: | Sat, 5 Apr 2014 12:35:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: | Blackboard Articles <articles@www.blackboard.com>
To: | SOMEONE@UMBC

Hello,

Your school has uploaded an article with your information tagged in the content.

Please sign in immediately to review your information.

Click here to sign in and review the article now

Comment/Notifications of articles that are published will be delivered to you.

Black board Articles.