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Cybersecurity Alert: Phishing Emails Targeting UMBC Benefits Information
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....
May 14, 2025 · 1:03 PM
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Copier and Toner Telephone Scam
Sharing for Awareness
We'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...
March 7, 2025 · 11:09 AM
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Beware of PayPal "New Address" Emails
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...
February 24, 2025 · 9:09 AM
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Financial Aid and Job Offers Email
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...
February 21, 2025 · 9:37 AM
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Account Deactivation Emails
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...
December 4, 2024 · 1:39 PM
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Gift Card Scams Are Targeting UMBC Staff
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...
July 31, 2024 · 9:02 PM
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Concerning Job Scams
Holidays and long weekends attempt to catch users off guard
Over the weekend the Division of Information Technology has gotten reports of several job scams sent to users by email. These scams promise good pay for minimal effort, usually at home on your own...
June 20, 2023 · 4:33 PM
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Event ticket sales paused due to vendor security concerns
UMBC has been informed that a third-party vendor for campus event ticketing, AudienceView (also known as University Tickets), recently experienced a payment card data security breach with its...
February 28, 2023 · 3:59 PM
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Two Unusual Phishing Campaigns
Scammers get creative
Recently the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received notification of two phishing campaigns at other universities.  While neither of these has been reported at UMBC, we are posting this...
January 6, 2023 · 4:44 PM
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Protecting your online account over Winter Break
As we prepare for the winter break, we commonly see a surge in malicious activity toward user accounts. Users receive emails warning about unpaid invoices, expired passwords, or full inboxes....
December 22, 2022 · 1:44 PM
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