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Work From Home Scam

During the  COVID-19, unemployment numbers have been rising and more people are looking for work. Some people have unknowingly gotten involved in breaking the law. According to the article from...

Posted: May 26, 2020, 11:10 AM

Maryland COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Make sure you know who you’re talking to

May 22, 2020 Next Week, Maryland will begin a state-wide effort to trace the spread of COVID-19.  The effort will involve health workers making phone calls to Maryland residents.  This is a...

Posted: May 22, 2020, 3:02 PM

Android Ransomware

Malicious Software Pretending To Provide COVID-19 Info

Android Ransomware DomainTools discovered that domain names associated with COVID-19 and Coronavirus have spiked in the past few weeks, and many of those domains are considered malicious. One...

Posted: May 18, 2020, 6:24 PM

COVID-19 Phishing Attacks

A review of different attacks exploiting COVID-19 fears

Tripwire has released an article warning of these COVID19-related phishing scams. This article can be found at this link:...

Posted: May 18, 2020, 6:17 PM

Phishing Attack Today Uses Fake Email Renewal Scam

Email Tries To Get The Reader To Log In At Fake UMBC Page

A fairly well-crafted phishing attack hit UMBC mail inboxes today.  It looks like this: The link takes the reader to a fake UMBC login page.  It does not look like our usual page,...

Posted: May 13, 2020, 1:17 PM

Email Attacks

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:...

Posted: May 8, 2020, 12:31 PM

COVID-19 Job Scam in Email

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...

Posted: May 8, 2020, 12:12 PM

"Password Notification" Scam

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...

Posted: May 6, 2020, 12:03 PM

Another Part Time Job Scam...

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...

Posted: April 21, 2020, 10:17 AM

Cyberattacks Delivered By Your Mail Carrier

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...

Posted: April 20, 2020, 12:16 PM