We’ve had a few reports of Universities/Colleges being hit with some very targeted emails trying to get the userid and password of students. The email is usually along these lines. ------------------------------------------------ Subject VERIFY YOUR xxxxxx EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW ---------------------------------- The sender will be often be xxxxxteam@isp used to send msg or uni address The message often passes through some SPAM filters due to the relatively low volume of messages. If you have some samples we’d be interested in a copy. Look for messages to multiple recipients and increased volume of internal email to one specific external address. Oh, and educate your students. Update Looks like was doing the rounds in Europe around the 13th/16th of Jan, I guess APAC is next. In Europe the targeting was ISP accounts (thanks Alexander) and others. Margrete reports that it goes back even further, as much as 2 months. Looking at the samples sent in, the text basically only varies where the xxxxx are in the sample shown. The reply addresses used so far were in live.com and hotmail.com domains. The ones submitted to us have been taken care of.
Mark H - Shearwater |
Mark 392 Posts ISC Handler Feb 1st 2008 |
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