phishing
Beware of scams – if in doubt, verify
University Police wants the campus to be aware of weekly reports of email, social media and text scams or frauds.
Read More »Can you recognize a phishing e-mail?
With the rise in ransomware, which commonly uses phishing campaigns to gain unauthorized access to people’s computers, it has become especially important that we all become experts at accurately identifying phishing attempt e-mails. Some examples of recent ransomware attacks include:
Read More »Are you being phished? Check the login domain
Missouri S&T was hit with a phishing attack on Sept. 14. To avoid such an attack, when you click a link and a login request pops up, make sure you look at the web address to which it goes. Official university authentication pages will have one of only two domains at the beginning of the web address:
- https://microsoftonline.com/
- https://shib-idp.umsystem.edu/
Phishing email hits S&T
A phishing email was circulated to Missouri S&T email addresses today (Tuesday, Aug. 25). The email subject line contained “inv# 67477, 98277 and 35667 has been paid,” and the body of the email contains a phrase of “inv# 67477, 98277 and 35667 has been paid by EFT to your designated Bank” with a button link that reads ‘VIEW INVOICES AND REMITTANCE COPY. Do not respond or click the link within. Please delete the email as this phishing attempt has been reported to IT Security.
Read More »Beware of phishing, spoofing emails
Recently, Missouri S&T staff have reported receiving emails from university administrators that appear to be a phishing or spoofing attempts. These attempts try to trick recipients into believing that the “sender” wants some help, in this case a favor or an errand. Do not respond to these emails.
Read More »Beware of phishing scam, gift cards request
University Police received reports recently of a phishing scam targeting S&T community members. The scam involves an email supposedly from someone the recipient knows and a spoofed Missouri S&T email address that is really a Gmail address, such as john.doeamst.edu@gmail.com.
Read More »Beware of phishing attack
Another phishing attack is circulating through campus email accounts. If you receive a message that appears to come from an S&T student saying “The Office of IT Administrator has currently upgraded all mailbox (size). Please kindly click on: ‘Email Upgrade'” delete the message. Do not click on the link. Information on how to report SPAM or phishing emails is available on the IT website.
Read More »Phishing attack hits S&T emails
A phishing email was circulated on the Missouri S&T campus on March 17. The email contained the text seen below and was an attempt by a malicious phisher to trick recipients into sharing personal information.
Read More »IT never asks for your password
Have you received an email from an IT professional asking for your password? Don’t fall for this type of phishing email scam. IT will never ask for your password. Find out how to report and stay safe from email phishing scams here.
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