Phishing Alerts

2/28/17 Action required: [Mail on hold]

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are told to click on a link in order to increase their mailbox capacity.

If you receive this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

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Date
Feb. 28, 2017

2/28/17 Papa Francisco: muro cubano, puentes y “añicos”

UA Information Security received a phishing email report that purports to be an urgent news item.  The message is in Spanish, and is sent from "Urgent News."

If you receive this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on any links or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

2/28/17 New Message From Sarah

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are directed to click a link in order to view a new message.  The email was sent from Germany.

If you receive this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

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Date
Feb. 27, 2017

2/27/17 FUNDS NEEDED

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where the sender asks recipients to send a payment "today."

If you receive this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you responded to the email in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

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Date
Feb. 27, 2017

2/27/17 Technical (variation on earlier versions)

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are directed to click a link. This is another version of the same email being sent to campus since Friday, February 24, 2017=. 

If you received this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

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2/27/17 КЛИЕНТCКИЕ БАЗЫ Skype...

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients received an email with part of the following subject line. 

If you received this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on any links or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

 

Email Subject Line: КЛИЕНТCКИЕ БАЗЫ Skype...<REMOVED>

2/27/17 Technical Issue

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are directed to click a link. This is another version of an email the continues to be sent out, now with a different subject line. 

If you received this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

 

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2/27/17 Microsoft Exchange (Account Validation)

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are directed to click a link to validate an email account.

If you received this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

 

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2/27/17 Your invoice 822762 is ready for your review!

UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are directed to click a link to review and invoice. There was also an image attached to the email.

If you received this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link or responded in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

 

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2/26/17 Technical (Version 2)

UA Information Security continues to receive phishing reports of an email with the subject line "Technical."  The link within the email leads to a page that looks like the UA webpage, but is actually a Russian website. The same email has been sent out many times from various senders, but the content of the email remains the same.