Security

Campus Phishing Attempt

Campus was targeted with a phishing email today. The email linked to a web site in an attempt to obtain campus credentials.

Immediately, our security team did the following to remediate the issue:

  • the URL was submitted, classified and blocked on campus as phishing
  • security at offending source was notified
  • take down of yolasite.com was issued

Below are some signs that this was not a legitimate email:

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The form that was linked to had some additional signs that it was not legitimate:

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More information about phishing is available at http://www.csuchico.edu/isec/basics/spam-and-phishing.shtml