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...
May 26, 2020
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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...
May 22, 2020
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3:02 PM
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...
May 18, 2020
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6:24 PM
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:...
May 18, 2020
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6:17 PM
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,...
May 13, 2020
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1:17 PM
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:...
May 8, 2020
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12:31 PM
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...
May 8, 2020
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12:12 PM
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...
May 6, 2020
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12:03 PM
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...
April 21, 2020
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10:17 AM
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...
April 20, 2020
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12:16 PM