A fake Teams meeting invite has been circulating today. Please be vigilant when receiving invites, especially unexpected ones, especially ones that contain attachments. When in doubt, reach out to your local IT support or security@illinois.edu.
Staff Assessment Report for 2025-2026
Heads-up, there is a phishing campaign going around that is prompting people to click through and log in to a fake authentication screen. Once they log in, their accounts are compromised and used to send the same fake email to people in their address book. DO NOT CLICK the link, and DO NOT SIGN IN […]
The American RedCross is Hiring Part time
FYI, there’s a phishing email campaign going around with a Word attachment purporting to be a remote job opportunity with the Red Cross. Please use the “Report Spam” feature of Outlook and do not open the attachment, click any links inside, or reply to the emails.
Awareness Notice: Extortion scams
Technology Services has seen the rise of a type of phishing message that appear especially threatening. These phishing emails, called extortion or blackmail scams, say that they will reveal embarrassing or incriminating information, images or videos if the recipient doesn’t pay up. While these types of messages are not new, scammers have begun including additional information […]
Inspection Referral (with PPT attachment)
Students and staff both report a widespread malicious email campaign today. The body of the email is blank and there is a PowerPoint (.ppt) slide deck file attached. Inside the slide deck is a malicious link; DO NOT CLICK IT. If you mistakenly clicked the link, please reach out to security@illinois.edu as soon as possible […]
Introducing Our Employee Assistance Program for 2024
A scam campaign is going around purporting to be an employee assistance program. This is NOT a legitimate email. Please use your “Report Spam” button in Outlook and do not click any links in the message.
Purchase officer
Another variant on the $500/wk job offer scam is going around, this time purporting to be an opportunity from the Red Cross organization. Be vigilant when receiving messages from random people, sent to email addresses that don’t match your own, and that require contacting generic addresses or providing personal or financial information!
Document shared with you: “DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS AND DATE.docx” (via Google Drive)
Updated March 1, 2024: This campaign is going around today, utilizing legitimate Google Docs sharing tools to phish and potentially spread malware. See examples below. Do NOT click on any links if you aren’t certain you know who is sending them and why. One way to determine whether a sharing notification is legitimate is to […]
UPDATED: Discover what’s happening across your organization.
Customers are seeing a wave of “Viva Engage” notifications with noreply@yammer.com addresses is going around. These are legitimate notifications, but potentially a nuisance. To manage your email notification preferences, follow Microsoft’s steps here.
IT Service Notification
A fake alert about terminating Microsoft 365