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Cybersecurity Alert: Increase in Phishing Scams

Account stealers and fake job scams use multiple methods

DoIT has detected several sophisticated email phishing scams attempting to steal user account credentials across campus. These scams have directed users to enter their username and password into...

June 24, 2025 · 6:45 PM

UMBC Alert Renewal Messages Are Legitimate

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...

June 2, 2025 · 12:32 PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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