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In June 2020, Wattpad suffered a data breach that exposed approximately 270 million records. These records include, names, usernames, email and IP addresses, genders, birth dates and passwords....

In the article linked below, BBC News warns of different Covid-19 themed frauds and scams. Many malicious actors follow the headlines just like the rest of us, and when they see a crisis like...

Recently DoIT has been notified of a phishing email scam where the malicious actor is impersonating a UMBC staff member. The name has been removed from the From for privacy reasons, but an example...

In June 2020,  Dave, a digital banking app, suffered a data breach. 7.5 million rows of data were leaked to the public on a hacking forum. The breach exposed individuals’ Personal Identifiable...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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>...