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<Title>Active Phishing Alert</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>Hello UMBC Community!</p>
    <p>The Cybersecurity Assurance and Digital Trust Department (CADT) in the Division of Information Technology is tracking an <strong>active phishing campaign </strong>that has impacted our campus community. This particular phishing campaign is targeting users with a phishing link that leads to a <strong>webpage resembling the log in page for myUMBC</strong>. </p>
    <p>Compromised users have been notified and their account passwords scrambled to safeguard their accounts. They have also received personalized myUMBC posts informing them of the events.</p>
    <p>If you have received notices from CADT, make sure you change your password to a long, unique value that you have not used on myUMBC or other services in the past. It is important that you do not provide attackers with your DUO two-factor authentication codes or accept <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/152867" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">push notifications you have not initiated</a>.</p>
    <p>Users who believe they have already clicked on the phishing links should change their passwords immediately and contact <a href="mailto:security@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">security@umbc.edu</a> to report the phishing email.</p>
    <p>Thank you for assisting us in keeping the campus community safe!</p></div>
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<Summary>Hello UMBC Community!   The Cybersecurity Assurance and Digital Trust Department (CADT) in the Division of Information Technology is tracking an active phishing campaign that has impacted our...</Summary>
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