Spear phishing attempt is a carefully crafted personalized email that is usually sent with an attachment or requests a response. The fraudster then tries to entice the recipient to open the infected attachment or respond with personal information.
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We have reports from faculty and staff who have been recipients of a new twist on an old e-mail scam. These phishing scams often come from a non-UCLA email address with poor spelling/grammar.
You should never click a link or call back the number from an unexpected delivery notice.
UCLA Information Security Office is aware of UCLA students being targeted by fake job offer scams.
UCLA will retire the Sophos Antivirus product for campus on 10/28/21. Learn what to do before then, to keep yourself protected.
On December 24, 2020, UC’s Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) was the target of an international attack. UC data was accessed without authorization and some of this data was posted on the Internet.