Document shared with you: “Faculty Bonus.docx”

This email below has been confirmed as malicious or fraudulent by the Information Security department. If you have received this phishing email, do not open any attachments or follow the link(s) in the message; simply delete the email.

This email appears to come from a Google Drive share and a number of its links are legitimately from Google. Anyone can get a Google Drive account and host documents with malicious code. This email was sent to a number of people who work for Dr. Hardin but she did not share this document. They simply used her name in the message. The graphic below shows the red flags. The link to the file Faculty Bonus.docx leads to a file which most likely has malicious code and will download a virus or even ransomware to the computer/device of the person who clicks it. This is a case of Spear Phishing, where the bad actor did some research to find targets who probably report to Dr. Hardin.

Red Flag: IT HelpDesk with a gmail account is not from UT HSA. Red Flag: Deans and Executives will never send information through Google Docs.

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