Dear faculty, staff, and students, The following email from Dr. and Mrs. Suresh is legitimate. You can click on the link to see the holiday card. Thanks. Khalid From: Subra and Mary Suresh [mailto:official@andrew.cmu.edu] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016
Phishing attack: very elaborate attempt to install malware
Dear faculty, students, and staff, The following email is also a phishing attempt. This one is faked to come from President Suresh with a PDF attachment. The president does not send attachments in emails to the entire campus so you
Phishing attack: attempt to install ransomware
Dear colleagues, The email below is a phishing attempt carrying a malicious Word file with a .docm extension. If you open the attachment, it will start to install the ransomware code on your machine. The ransomware will then proceed to
Fwd: Student Report available
Dear all, The email below is phishing attempt to steal your AndrewID and password. The email is faked to come from Blackboard Inc as a notification that a student report has been uploaded and ready for review. It is well
Phishing attack: attempt to install malware
Dear faculty, students, and staff, The email below is most likely a ransomware attempt. If you get a similar email, please delete it. Thanks. Khalid —–Original Message—– From: GLENCROSS, REYNA [mailto:REYNA.GLENCROSS@ELECTROMECH.CO.NZ] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 5:24 PM To:
Phishing attack: most likely ransomware attack
Dear faculty, students, and staff, The email below is most likely at attempt to install ransomware. The email claims to come from the university “admin management” and contains a Blackboard icon, hoping to fool you into opening an attachment. The
Phishing attack: attempt to steal username and password
Dear faculty, students, and staff, The following email is a phishing attack designed to steal your username and password. The email claims to notify you of pending messages in Blackboard and the embedded link takes you to a generic looking
Phishing attack: attempt to steal AndrewID and password
Dear faculty, staff, and students, The email below is a phishing attack attempting to steal your AndrewID and password. The email falsely claims that CMU is implementing a new security system and asks you to login to activate it. The
Phishing alert: new cover story to steal your password
Dear faculty, staff, and students, The email shown below is an attempt to steal your password. The email requests you to send copies of your published papers with links to the papers in the email. However, one of the links
Another phishing attack: attempt to steal AndrewID and password
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, The email below is a phishing attempt with a link to a page masquerading as an Outlook Web Access login page to try to steal your AndrewID and password. If you receive a similar email,