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Recent Spear-phishing Emails

Faked Email Messages Looking For Your Phone Number

A new wave of Spear-phishing emails hit roughly 300 UMBC inboxes this weekend. An example is shown below, with the From field altered and the To field removed for privacy. There is no body in this...

Posted: July 30, 2020, 3:42 PM

Fake Job Offers from Corestaff

UMBC Community Gets More Fake Job Offers

Jobs phishing Alert: Corestaff During the past week, DOIT has received several notifications of phishing emails impersonating Corestaff. Below is a sample message that was sent to many UMBC...

Posted: July 30, 2020, 3:40 PM

WORK-FROM-HOME Phishing Email Scam

Job Scams, Checks, and Threats

UMBC continues to receive phishing email campaigns from a malicious actor pretending to be from either Cisco or Corestaff. This phishing email has the goal of not only getting users personal...

Posted: July 30, 2020, 3:36 PM

Recent Spear-phishing Emails

Phishers Want Your Phone Number

A new wave of Spear-phishing emails hit roughly 300 UMBC inboxes this weekend. An example is shown below, with the From field altered and the To field removed for privacy. There is no body in this...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 4:28 PM

Content Editor Updates Enhance Announcements, Embedded Media

Ultra journals now included in course copy

The August Blackboard update introduces an enhanced text editor to the Ultra course announcement tool, allowing faculty to add and display more types of content, embed web links and media, and...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 11:43 AM

Zoom-Themed Phishing Campaign

Phishing Campaign Exploits Remote Meeting Users

Abnormal Security recently found a Zoom-themed phishing campaign. This campaign is using fake Zoom alerts to steal Microsoft 356 credentials. With the boom in teleworking, workers at many...

Posted: July 27, 2020, 5:53 PM

Quarterly patching downtime on 8/14/2020 and 8/15/2020

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, August 14th and Saturday, August 15th.  While many of the...

Posted: July 24, 2020, 12:09 PM

Phishing Scam Uses Fake Docusign Messages

Docusign Fakes Target UMBC And Other Universities

The Division of Information Technology has received notices of a faked Docusign email sent out this week.  The subject line of the fake is: re:Docusign - Review File - <email address>...

Posted: July 22, 2020, 4:12 PM

Part Time Job Phishing Alert: CORNERSTONE JOB OFFER

Fake Job Scams Target UMBC Students

During the past week, DOIT has received notifications of several phishing emails. Below is a sample of a Phishing message that over 600 UMBC students have received. For privacy purposes the To...

Posted: July 22, 2020, 2:52 PM

Fake Covid-19 Fund Scam

No. The FTC Is NOT Offering You Any Money

Fake Covid-19 Fund Scam The FTC posted an article warning of a phishing scam that they recently discovered. In this scam, the malicious actor is sending email claiming to be from the FTC and...

Posted: July 22, 2020, 2:49 PM