Move-in weekend scams hit UDel inboxes

Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized

Campus has been busy these past few days. Students and professors alike are returning to the area, and there’s lots of communication going on between colleagues and UD’s many departments. Unfortunately, this time also presents a golden opportunity for...

Paycheck spear phishing emails target UDel employees

Aug 13, 2015 | Uncategorized

Adding to the already-large pile of spear phishing attacks we’ve seen this year is a little number from some clever criminals. The email includes a UD banner and claims to come from HR. It even appears to have spoofed a UDel.edu address to get the attack past...

UD email with “suspicious” subject is a phishing scam

Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorized

This afternoon, several concerned UD email readers reported the phishing scam shown here. It’s a pretty obvious one: Link goes to a non UD site but tries to make a sloppy reader think that the site is legitimate–The URL begins with...

Wave of infected MS Office attachments reported in UD email

Jul 24, 2015 | Microsoft

We’ve seen a recent increase in UD email messages containing infected MS Office attachments. Some of these messages may be spear phishing attacks, email scams targeting a recipient based on his or her affiliation with the University. Some are random attacks...

New “Validate!” Spear Phishing scam attacks UD inboxes

Jul 11, 2015 | Uncategorized

We’ve seen a new spear phishing attack on UD email accounts this weekend that tries to use a Google Form to harvest the account information from unsuspecting UD students, faculty, and staff. The email looks like this: From: UD Support Team...