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Data Breach: LiveAuctioneers
Data Breach On Online Marketplace
On June 19, 2020 an online antique Marketplace, LiveAuctioneers, suffered a data breach. Approximately 3.4 million records were leaked. The records include names, email and IP addresses, physical...
September 11, 2020 · 11:19 AM
Covid-19 Scams Are Still Active
Some More Tips To Identify Contact Tracing Scams
With Covid-19 being something we all face in our daily lives, malicious actors are not giving up on scamming people out of not only their personal and financial information, but are also trying to...
September 9, 2020 · 8:09 PM
Covid-19 Contact Tracing Scams
Contact Tracing Scammers Are Still Active
With Covid-19 still very present in our day to day lives, many states have started to roll out contact tracing programs to help control the spread of disease. This is done by informing people who...
September 9, 2020 · 7:52 PM
Job Scam "Internship" From A Compromised UMBC Account
Check The "Reply-To" Address
The job scam below was recently reported to DoIT. The subject of the email is just “Internship” and has a very short message as can be seen below. The name and email of the from and to fields were...
September 9, 2020 · 7:42 PM
FAKE Offer Of A "Personal Assistant" Job
NOTICE: "Ryan Glenn" Does NOT Want To Hire You.
In the last several days, the UMBC community has received thousands of fake job offers from "Ryan Glenn".  An example is shown below: You are eligible to apply for an opening as...
August 31, 2020 · 3:01 PM
Fake Cisco Phishing Job Scams
Cisco Systems Is NOT Offering You A Job In A Mass Emailing!
DoIT has been notified of another malicious actor sending out phishing emails claiming to offer job opportunities with Cisco Systems. The email below is similar to the previous phishing attempts,...
August 31, 2020 · 2:06 PM
Job Scam “Offer” From A Compromised UMBC Account
Fake Job Offer For "Online Personal Assistant"
Recently the DoIT has been notified of a job scam using a compromised UMBC email account to send out fake job offers. An example of the email (with the name of the sender removed for privacy) is...
August 31, 2020 · 2:01 PM
Tips to Avoid ID Theft on Campus
Simple Ways To Secure Your Identity
With classes starting back up, malicious actors will try even harder to steal people's information or commit Identity theft. The article that is linked below has some tips for college students to...
August 31, 2020 · 1:58 PM
“WorkStudy Update!” Job Phishing Scam
Same Scam, Different Details
The UMBC DoIT has been notified of a compromised UMBC account used to send out phishing emails. An example of the email chain is shown below. The name and email address of the compromised UMBC...
August 31, 2020 · 1:54 PM
“WorkStudy Offer!” Job Phishing Scam
Compromised UMBC Exploited To Send Fake Job Offer
DoIT was notified today of a scammer sending out emails claiming to be offering a job opportunity. The message came from a compromised Umbc email account, so the From name was removed for privacy...
August 26, 2020 · 11:24 PM

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