Monday,
June 2, 2025
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Over the weekend, some members of the UMBC community may have received messages (via text or email) like the ones shown below, prompting users to renew their UMBC Alert account. These messages...
Wednesday,
May 14, 2025
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Watch out for fake emails with subjects like "Meeting/[your name]" asking to review your pension and UMBC benefits. These are NOT legitimate and are part of a phishing campaign DoIT is tracking....
Friday,
March 7, 2025
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Sharing for AwarenessWe're sharing information about a recent phone and email scam to raise awareness across our campus community. Multiple scammers posing as a 'Shipping' and 'Billing' department targeted a UMBC...
Monday,
February 24, 2025
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New approach (to phishing). Same goal.Cyberattackers constantly evolve their tactics to bypass organizational defenses. A recent trend involves exploiting PayPal's gift address feature to deliver phishing messages. These messages...
Friday,
February 21, 2025
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It seemed phishy because it was!This morning, several individuals received a phishing email disguised as a job opportunity. We want to thank everyone who reported it. Your reports allow us to take immediate action to protect...
Wednesday,
December 4, 2024
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Don't click - it's a phish!!The Department of Information Technology (DoIT) has received reports of a phishing campaign asking the campus community to provide their user ids and passwords to ensure their accounts are not...
Wednesday,
July 31, 2024
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If it seems weird, it is. Don't do it.For several years, UMBC's Division of Information Technology has received reports of gift card scams. Recently, some of these scams have been sent as text messages to personal phones, falsely...