Phishing Alerts

There is a phishing campaign circulating this week targeting international students. An example message is provided here. Note that it is attempting to impersonate university leadership and is making alarming statements that might cause someone to panic and act without thinking. The message is also full of grammatical errors and prompting recipients to share personal […]

Act Now !!

Posted on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(Final Notifications!!)

Posted on January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 by Allison Payne (Gies)

Fake email notification threatening to delete an email account if you don’t sign in to Office 365.

Happy New Year

Posted on January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Posted on December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 by Allison Payne (Gies)

Fake job offer phishing campaign.

Item shared with you: “2022resource”

Posted on August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 by Allison Payne (Gies)

Item shared with you: “ADMIN EVALUATION FILE.pdf”

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

HR Department Message (COMPULSORY) !!!

Posted on May 2, 2022May 2, 2022 by Allison Payne (Gies)

This site includes alerts about confirmed phishing attempts reported by University of Illinois faculty and staff. If you’ve received one of these attempts, please delete the message. (What is phishing?)

New alerts will be posted as soon as possible, but this site does not include all phishing attempts. Always be suspicious of email you don’t expect from senders you don’t recognize.

If you believe you may have fallen victim to the attempt, please report it to Campus Security at security@illinois.edu, your IT support team, and your unit’s security liaison. If you need assistance checking the legitimacy of an email, please contact your IT support team. You can also forward any unsolicited email messages as attachments to report-spam@illinois.edu.

As of April 25th, Outlook users can report phishing and spam emails via the Report Spam Outlook Add-in. See this Answers @ Illinois article for details about how to use the tool (Illinois login required)

Please Verify Your Account!!!

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Phishing Campaign Targeting International Students