UFV students are often targeted with emails offering fake jobs. Attackers will promise you a lucrative job or work-from-home opportunity – but these are a scam. How does this scam work? The attacker sends an email to your student email address; it may have an attachment, but it will almost always link to a Google […]
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Targeted phishing attempts to faculty and staff
With semester start, UFV’s Cybersecurity team has seen an increase in targeted phishing campaigns against faculty and staff. There are two types of phishing emails being commonly reported: The gift card scam: These emails come from a free email provider, like Gmail, and impersonate UFV employees by signing the email with their name. The scammer […]
Cyber Security Reminders
On July 19th 2024, CrowdStrike, a cyber security company, issued a content update which crashed Microsoft Windows systems worldwide, including those at UFV. IT Services has been working quickly to resolve the issue on UFV devices. Following this event, threat actors have been attempting to capitalize on the crisis in many ways, including: • Sending […]