Email quota phishing scam

Here’s another moldy oldie that is appearing in UD inboxes this morning: Information Technology Services (UDE) are currently upgrading e-mail accounts. This will provide you the ability to store a greatly increased amount of e-mail correspondence in your e-mail...

Phishing emails flood UDel inboxes

Phishers appear to be hitting the University community hard. Over the past week, we’ve received several reports of a variety of spear phishing messages that target members of the University community. These emails are not part of the phishing test; these are...

Spear phishers try to use security awareness to trick UDel members

It’s only Monday morning and we’re already seeing numerous reports about a spear phishing campaign making cycles around campus. These two emails use the idea of information security as a pretext for the scam. Both appear to come from legitimate UDel email...

Fake email account notification hits UDel inboxes

Today brings us an obvious and classic phish: the traditional email account maintenance notification. Immediately, you’ll notice that the sender is a University of Michigan account, the byline, title, and signature all say University of Delaware, and the content...

Spammers hijack accounts, hit UDel inboxes

It seems that some scammers have been using hijacked UDelNet accounts to send generic spam messages to UD accounts and mailing lists. The MO on these messages is all the same: the scammer acquires someone’s account credentials and then uses the compromised...