“President on line 1…”: CEO fraud and how we stop it

Sep 28, 2018 | Newsletter

Our community recently reported a spate of phishing scams imitating University leadership—including President Dennis Assanis—and demanding everything from wire transfers to large numbers of iTunes gift cards. BEC (business email compromise, aka “CEO...

Spear phishing takes aim at UD Exchange users

Aug 30, 2017 | Phishing

Today we’ve received several reports of phishing scams that are designed to trick users of UD’s Exchange service into clicking where they shouldn’t click. Two examples, with arrows pointing to the bad link: Thanks to all the folks who used...

Even with typos, this phishing scam hooked some UD folks

Jul 18, 2017 | Phishing

Several people reported this phishing scam to reportaphish@udel.edu. However, we had some UD folks ignore the typos, wacky spacing and fonts, and click the link to the scammer’s website: People, people, people. How many times do we need to tell you to be careful...

Wire transfer phishing attack reported at UD

Jun 9, 2017 | Phishing

We’ve had multiple reports about a spear phishing attack that asks UD staff to process a wire transfer for a specific amount. The recipient of this message forwarded it to her supervisor to see if it was legitimate or not, and for him to process if it were a...

“New login from Manassas” phishing scam

Jun 1, 2017 | Phishing

This phishing scam is, at first glance, almost convincing. But if you think for just 20 seconds, you’ll recognize it for the phishing scam it is. This scam is spear phishing aimed at UD users. Check out the low-res copy of a UD logo. If you hover your mouse over...