Today, between 07:00-08:00 the Tygerberg personnel accounts were migrated to the STB domain. E-mail, logins, etc. were affected and hopefully most of you were moved with relatively few issues.

The phishers do not stop their attacks and e-mails to try to get you to reveal your usernames, passwords etc,  and still flood many people’s mailboxes.

However, today there was another attack, which is particularly sinister, because apparently it is from from “HELPDESK” and asks you to log in to a page and give your username and password so you can enjoy the *improved* services. It is sent from the “Webmail Upgrade Team”.

An unfortunate coincidence that on the same day we are migrating, we receive a phishing scam about “upgrading”, hence its danger to Tygerberg.

Please don’t respond, or go to the site that you are being asked to go to. Do not fill in your username, password or ANY other details on any site. The Stellenbosch University Information Technology migration took place without there being any need for users to provide user names and passwords. Any issues with the migration can be reported telephonically to the IT Helpdesk at 021-8084367.

Here is an example of the phishing mail that many are receiving. If you are in doubt about any e-mail you receive, call your local computer geek or at least ask the IT HelpDesk.

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—–Original Message—–

From: Webmail Upgrade Team [mailto:phisher@scam.com]

Sent: 03 March 2016 12:23 PM

Subject: HELP DESK

ATTN: Outlook Web Access User,

Take note of this important update that our new webmail has been improved with a new messaging system from Outlook Web Access which also include faster usage on email, shared calendar,web-documents and the new 2016 anti-spam version. Please use the outlook web access link below to complete your update for our new Outlook Web Access improved webmail.

http://link.to.phishing.site/

NOTE: Failure to do this within 24 hours of receiving this notice we will immediately render your Outlook Web App account deactivated from our database and you cannot hold us responsible since you fail to adhere to our request.

___________________

Regards,

IT Service Desk Support.

Admin Team

Miss Annie Phisher

[INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY DAVID WILES]

 

 

Tags: phishing, Tygerberg

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