Author: Allison Payne (Gies)
Allison is the Manager of Tech Support and Training at the Gies College of Business. She has been with the college since May 2020 and has worked on campus since 2005.
Allison is a member of the IT Council End User Svcs subcommittee, the campus Knowledgebase working group, and the Dell negotiating lead for the campus bulk purchasing initiative.
New anti-phishing tools to deploy this week
Dear campus community, You likely have noticed the recent increase in malicious emails in your inbox. Universities around the globe are experiencing similar increases, and we’re working around the clock to mitigate the problem and prevent continued phishing attacks. Technology Services’ Privacy and Cybersecurity team is turning on the first of several planned solutions over […]
New V-MSG For [NetID] Today On 11/04
We are seeing some phishing emails today that take the form of fake voicemail notifications purporting to be from Mitel Networks Support Illinois. The body of the message looks like an automated Microsoft voicemail form but has clickable email, phone, etc., fields that all lead to malicious links.
FW: UNICEF PART – TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY
This UNICEF job opportunity phishing campaign is going around again. It appears to be exactly the same verbiage, and the only reason it wasn’t marked as Spam automatically is because it came from a compromised @illinois.edu account. If your own account is sending these out, or you click the link, IT Security will reset your […]
UI: WE ARE HIRING! / UILLINOIS|WE ARE H I R I N G!!!
Another scam campaign emerged this weekend, purporting to be an official message from “Career Services” and using the WebTools MassMail design template to seem more official. No, Career Services is not offering $300/week virtual assistant. jobs. If something seems to good to be true – and if it’s telling you specifically to provide a non-university […]
Quota Limit Exceeded-New Messages will Return
Below are examples of a phishing scam email about email quotas. It is very rare that “email quota” notifications with time pressure will be legitimate. However, if you aren’t sure, rather than clicking a generic link from an email, you can sign in to your Outlook Online account at webmail.illinois.edu, click the Gear icon to […]
[Person shared] “2022staffresource” with you
Another instance of a malicious file shared through legitimate service (OneDrive, Google Drive) purporting to be from a VIP, in this case, the Dean.
Re: Employee COVID-19 Program
Be on the lookout for COVID-related “assistance” scams like this one currently going around. This is not advertising a legitimate program. Some clues are: 1) the bit.ly short URL obscuring the true destination of the support page, 2) the fact that this is being sent by a .edu address for a different institution, 3) that […]
$500/week work opportunity
Do not reply to the email address in this message. Consider it suspicious any time someone sending email from @illinois.edu asks you to reply to a Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/AOL address. Be wary of emails with attachments, especially those with offers that seem too good to be true.