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FFCRA_Employee Rights_Non-Federal Poster [[Smishing alert]]
April 2, 2020
Smishing is short for SMS phishing. It works just like a phishing email but uses text messages to get victims to visit a link or send personal or confidential data to the sender. You should delete any unsolicited text messages; they are almost always attempts to gain personal or confidential data from you. To verify […]
COVID-19 Campus Message from UT Health San Antonio
March 28, 2020
COVID-19 Phishing Sample #5: Dirty little secret
March 24, 2020
In scams like these, the crooks don’t have any data on you, let alone details about all your family members and where they live. The “proof or secret” they may have is a password you used to have that was extracted from publicly available data leaked in an old data breach. Don’t be scared, send […]
COVID-19 Phishing Sample #4: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak prevention and cure update
March 24, 2020
This email instructs recipients to open an attachment for the purpose of receiving updated instructions on how to fight the coronavirus. This attachment was an archive that, when opened, revealed “Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) CURE.exe.” When run, this executable loaded HawkEye, a keylogger which is capable of intercepting keystrokes, stealing credentials, taking screenshots, and exfiltrating its […]
COVID-19 Phishing Sample #3
March 23, 2020
1 – From address is inconsistent with name 2 – Lure intended to entice user to click suspicious links; verify something like this with a reputable news source
COVID-19 Phishing Sample #2
March 23, 2020
1 – From address is inconsistent with name 2 – Generic greeting 3 – 700,000 euros == if it looks too good to be true, it probably is 4 – Bank secretary with a Gmail.account + many, many punctuation and spelling errors
COVID-19 Phishing Sample #1
March 23, 2020
From address claims Federal agency (CDC), but displays incorrect address. The attachment contains malicious code to infect the user’s computer.
You can beat COVID-19 with these preventive measures
March 4, 2020
This company sells products claiming to ease or reverse the effects of allergies. The company appears to be using the current health crisis to direct users to AllerPop’s web site for an article and, indirectly, to their products. View at your own risk!
URGENT REQUEST
February 25, 2020
From: [username].uthscsa@gmail.com Date: February ##, 2020 Subject: URGENT REQUEST Available? What number can I text you at?
Notice: Anti-Spam Update request
February 20, 2020