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Guide for Recognizing COVID-19 Scams and Risks

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:...

Posted: April 21, 2020, 10:13 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

Scam E-mail Spoofing Account of Scott Casper

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...

Posted: April 20, 2020, 12:06 PM

Student Work at Home Scam

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...

Posted: April 20, 2020, 12:01 PM