Sometimes, CASE staff send me fantastic examples of phishing and SPAM. Each month, I'll highlight my favorites and show you what to watch out for. Here's a beauty, forwarded to me by Jerry Brendel, our Business Manager. This is an example of both spear phishing and whale phishing. It's called "spear fishing" because the attackers took extra measures [...]
We have ourselves a doozy today. Several of our CASE staff received this one. Take a look: This email was actually pretty sophisticated for a few reasons: It was probably sent by a piece of malware called a Worm. Worms self-perpetuate by hijacking people's email accounts and sending messages to everybody in their contact lists. [...]
We're not even past the first week of December and I've got another nasty example for you, this time courtesy of APE teacher Tara McCarthy. From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 5:21 AM To: Tara McCarthy Subject: Security Alert. [email protected] was compromised. Password must be changed. Hello! I have very bad news for you. 09/08/2018 - on [...]
This one comes to us courtesy of Vision Itinerant Teacher Kathy Sledz. OK, a few things to notice right off the bat. The fancy orange button gives this SPAM a little bit of credibility. In fact it looks pretty plausible if you don't know what to look for. Like most SPAM messages, it doesn't address [...]
This one is worth a mention only because it seems to have reached dozens of our staff (thanks for sending those my way! I love your SPAM!) This screenshot came to me from Physical Therapist Rebecca Grimm: It doesn't appear that there's any high-tech tomfoolery with this SPAM. It is classic "419" scam (so named [...]
I got this one from Tara McCarthy, Melinda Smith, Carol Fate, and Linda Jedrzejek, so it's definitely making the rounds. Here are some red flags that this might be a dangerous phishing operation: 1. Lots of different domains. Look at the email address--see how it ends in "iteacherweb.com"? If you hover (DON'T CLICK) your mouse [...]
It has been a REALLY spammy month here so I'm going to quickly go through this rogue's gallery and give you the lowdown of what to watch out for and the best course of action. Plus I've got a doozy to start with. Etta Avila sent me this one. Some notes on this one: This [...]
Last Thursday, we were hit with the most devastatingly effective phishing scams I have ever seen. Behold: Not one, not two, but at least four people replied innocently believing that "[email protected]" was our own dear Mary Furbush, which led to the scammer spamming almost anybody he could. What made this scam so effective? Its simplicity. [...]
We've been getting another rash of spam. Mostly, they are same varieties I have blogged about already, which you can see here: https://www.casedupage.com/?s=spam+of+the+month We continue to get spammed by "AES" offering "Long Term Care" or "Student Loan Forgiveness" to our employees. Watch out for these and mark them as Phishing when you see them. Here [...]
Here we go, the first SPAM of the year, this time courtesy of Melinda Smith! OK so this one looks kind of obvious but let's list the immediate signs that something is phishy: Unfamiliar sender. Email is asking for something (appearing to be an invoice). Link in the email (we'll look at this in a [...]
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