A Review Of Recent Email Trying To Infect Your Computer
Email Attacks Tripwire has released an article warning of these COVID-19 related email scams. The article can be found at this link:...
May 8, 2020
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12:31 PM
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New Scam Subject: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION
The UMBC Division of Information Technology received notification of a new job scam variant on 08may2020. The subject is: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION From: Koyepes Michael...
May 8, 2020
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12:12 PM
Email with bogus link wants to steal your password
This morning DoIT has received several reports of a password change scam that has been going around campus: From: ti93943@wildblue.net Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:45 AM Subject: Password...
May 6, 2020
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12:03 PM
Last week DoIT received several notifications of yet another part-time job scam arriving at email inboxes on our virtual campus. The To: field has been removed from the example for reasons of...
April 21, 2020
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10:17 AM
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) posted a guide, on April 13, 2020, about online scams exploiting people’s concerns about the COVID-19. The guide is available at:...
April 21, 2020
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10:13 AM
Scammers and hackers will use any way to get to you...
A group called FIN7 has been using a novel method to target victims. The attack is delivered through USPS mail, the kind that’s delivered into the real mailbox. The target gets a package in...
April 20, 2020
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12:16 PM
Scammers are impersonating people to get info and money.
On Monday, 4/13/2020, DoIT was notified by several members of the UMBC community about an e-mail message impersonating Dr. Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social...
April 20, 2020
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12:06 PM
Hackers Offering Jobs at Cisco Systems
A scam message (see below) was sent to about 80 UMBC email addresses on 4/15/2020. It’s a variation of a scam job offer we saw a few months ago. It is NOT from Cisco Systems. If you respond...
April 20, 2020
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12:01 PM
Scammers are finding new ways to get your info and money.
Any good scam, electronic or otherwise, works best when the victim is outside of their normal patterns of life. A phishing scam has been circulating that claims that you have been exposed to...
April 7, 2020
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5:05 PM
Just because it's on the web or offered doesn't make it real
The Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) has issued a report on the presence of advertisements for medical supplies, including a vaccine for Covid-19 (as of 4/7/2020 there is no such vaccine). These...
April 7, 2020
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2:36 PM