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This is not a legitimate email from SARS.)] TJ ET BT 61.016 606.442 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(The suspicious email is being sent from compromised staff email accounts informing users that "An EMP Statement of )] TJ ET BT 61.016 595.453 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(Account for the tax payer listed below has been issued by SARS" and you "need to log into the google doc with your )] TJ ET BT 61.016 584.464 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(correct details to view the document". \(as shown in example below\):)] TJ ET BT 61.016 564.475 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(It is important that you help us by spreading the word, informing us about suspicious mails and letting your colleagues and )] TJ ET BT 61.016 553.486 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(friends know about the scams. You are our eyes and ears, and your input, information and questions are extremely )] TJ ET BT 61.016 542.497 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(valuable.)] TJ ET BT 61.016 522.508 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(When you click on links and provide your information on phishing emails, criminals will be able to gain access to your )] TJ ET BT 61.016 511.519 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(personal information. If you clicked on the link of this phishing email, immediately go to the www.sun.ac.za/useradm )] TJ ET BT 61.016 500.530 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(website and change the passwords on all your university accounts.)] TJ ET BT 61.016 480.541 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(Remember that once the phishers lose control of one compromised account they might simply move over to another )] TJ ET BT 61.016 469.552 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(account and they might also close the website they were using once it is blocked by us and would use another one that )] TJ ET BT 61.016 458.563 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(looks and acts in the same way.Currently, the phishers are servers in Europe to launch their attacks.This is a common )] TJ ET BT 61.016 447.574 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(tactic with a spear-phishing attack such as this.)] TJ ET BT 61.016 425.785 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(To help us, please:)] TJ ET 0.153 0.153 0.153 RG 85.866 408.612 m 85.866 409.024 85.696 409.434 85.404 409.726 c 85.113 410.017 84.703 410.187 84.291 410.187 c 83.878 410.187 83.469 410.017 83.177 409.726 c 82.885 409.434 82.716 409.024 82.716 408.612 c 82.716 408.200 82.885 407.790 83.177 407.498 c 83.469 407.207 83.878 407.037 84.291 407.037 c 84.703 407.037 85.113 407.207 85.404 407.498 c 85.696 407.790 85.866 408.200 85.866 408.612 c f BT 91.016 405.796 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(continue to watch out for mail like or similar to this and do NOT respond to it, click on links or provide your email )] TJ ET BT 91.016 394.807 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(address username or password)] TJ ET 85.866 386.634 m 85.866 387.046 85.696 387.456 85.404 387.748 c 85.113 388.039 84.703 388.209 84.291 388.209 c 83.878 388.209 83.469 388.039 83.177 387.748 c 82.885 387.456 82.716 387.046 82.716 386.634 c 82.716 386.222 82.885 385.812 83.177 385.520 c 83.469 385.229 83.878 385.059 84.291 385.059 c 84.703 385.059 85.113 385.229 85.404 385.520 c 85.696 385.812 85.866 386.222 85.866 386.634 c f BT 91.016 383.818 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(report the new phishing mail to the correct e-mail addresses of Information Technology Cyber Security using the )] TJ ET BT 91.016 372.829 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(method added to the bottom of this post)] TJ ET 85.866 364.656 m 85.866 365.068 85.696 365.478 85.404 365.770 c 85.113 366.061 84.703 366.231 84.291 366.231 c 83.878 366.231 83.469 366.061 83.177 365.770 c 82.885 365.478 82.716 365.068 82.716 364.656 c 82.716 364.244 82.885 363.834 83.177 363.542 c 83.469 363.251 83.878 363.081 84.291 363.081 c 84.703 363.081 85.113 363.251 85.404 363.542 c 85.696 363.834 85.866 364.244 85.866 364.656 c f BT 91.016 361.840 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(remember, just because a mail comes from a student or a personnel e-mail address and has university )] TJ ET BT 91.016 350.851 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(branding does not mean in any way that it is legitimate)] TJ ET BT 61.016 330.862 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(If you have received mail that looks like this please immediately report it to the Information Technology Security Team )] TJ ET BT 61.016 319.873 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(using the following method: \(especially if it comes from a university address\))] TJ ET BT 78.360 299.900 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(1.)] TJ ET BT 91.016 299.884 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(Start up a new mail addressed to )] TJ ET 0.373 0.169 0.255 rg BT 225.080 299.884 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(sysadm@sun.ac.za)] TJ ET 0.373 0.169 0.255 RG 0.18 w 0 J [ ] 0 d 225.080 298.733 m 303.740 298.733 l S 0.153 0.153 0.153 rg BT 303.740 299.884 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [( \(CC: )] TJ ET 0.373 0.169 0.255 rg BT 327.239 299.884 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(help@sun.ac.za)] TJ ET 0.18 w 0 J [ ] 0 d 327.239 298.733 m 391.904 298.733 l S 0.153 0.153 0.153 rg BT 391.904 299.884 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(\))] TJ ET BT 78.360 288.911 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(2.)] TJ ET BT 91.016 288.895 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(Use the Title SPAM \(without quotes\) in the Subject.)] TJ ET BT 78.360 277.922 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(3.)] TJ ET BT 91.016 277.906 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(With this New Mail window open, drag the suspicious spam/phishing mail from your Inbox into the New Mail )] TJ ET BT 91.016 266.917 Td /F4 9.0 Tf [(Window. 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Nigerian 419 Advance Fee scam

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

A scam in the form of a well-known “Nigerian 419 Advance Fee” mail is appearing in some of our colleagues and students mailboxes this morning.

The mail is rather simple:

Subject is: “Kindly view attach and forward your reply to <a gmail address>”

The mail’s content simply states the same and the attachment is an image of a letter and states that the sender has a large amount of money that they would like to send you.

This is a typical “Nigerian 411 Advance Fee” scam.

Here is how it works:

You receive an unsolicited message that masquerades as some manner of business proposition, request for assistance, notice of a potential inheritance, or opportunity to help a charity but all of the scam messages share a common theme.

The messages all claim that your help is needed to access a very large sum of money and promise that you will receive a significant portion of this money in exchange for your help.

The scammers use a variety of stories to explain why they need your help to access the funds.

  • They may claim that political climate or legal issues preclude them from accessing funds in a foreign bank account and request your help to gain such access.
  • They may claim that your last name is the same as that of the deceased person who owned an account and suggests that you act as the next of kin of this person in order to gain access to the account’s funds.
  • They may claim that a rich businessman, who has a terminal illness, needs your help to distribute his wealth to charity.
  • They may claim that a soldier stationed overseas has discovered a cache of hidden cash left by a fleeing dictator and needs your help to get the money out of the country.

All these scams promise to let you keep a significant percentage of the funds in exchange for your assistance. This is the bait that is used to pull potential victims deeper into the scam. Once a recipient has taken the bait, and initiated a dialogue with the scammers, he or she will soon receive requests for “fees” that the scammer claims are necessary for processing costs, tax and legal fees, bribes to local officials, or other – totally imaginary – fees.

In reality, the supposed funds do not exist and the main purpose of these scam messages is to trick recipients into parting with their money in the form of these advance fees. Fraudulent requests for fees will usually continue until the victim realises he or she is being conned and stops sending money. In some cases, the scammers may gather enough information to access the victim’s bank account directly or steal the victim’s identity.

Typically, advance fee scammers will send many thousands of identical scam messages to recipients all around the world. (as is today’s example) It only takes a few recipients to fall for the claims in the messages to make the operation pay off for the criminals.

What to do if you receive such an Advance Fee email:

It is important that you do not respond to it in any way. The scammers are likely to act upon any response from those they see as potential victims. The best thing to do with these scam messages is to simply delete them.

Send the spam/phishing mail to the following addresses

help@sun.ac.za and sysadm@sun.ac.za.

 Attach the phishing or suspicious mail on to the message if possible. There is a good tutorial on how to do this at the following link (Which is safe) : http://stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za/innov/it/it-help/Wiki%20Pages/Spam%20sysadmin%20Eng.aspx

  1. Start up a new mail addressed to sysadm@sun.ac.za (CC: help@sun.ac.za)
  2. Use the Title “SPAM” (without quotes) in the Subject.
  3. With this New Mail window open, drag the suspicious spam/phishing mail from your Inbox into the New Mail Window. It will attach the mail as an enclosure and a small icon with a light yellow envelope will appear in the attachments section of the New Mail.
  4. Send the mail.

If you have fallen for the scam:

If you did click on the link of this phishing spam and unwittingly give the scammers your username, e-mail address and password you should immediately go to http://www.sun.ac.za/useradm and change the passwords on ALL your university accounts (making sure the new password is completely different, and is a strong password that will not be easily guessed.) as well as changing the passwords on your social media and private e-mail accounts (especially if you use the same passwords on these accounts.)

IT have set up a website page with useful information on how to report and combat phishing and spam. The address is:

https://blogs.sun.ac.za/it/en/2017/11/reporting-spam-malware-and-phishing/

As you can see the address has a sun.ac.za at the end of the domain name, so it is legitimate. I suggest bookmarking this.

[ARTICLE BY DAVID WILES]

 

 

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Phishing: Subject “Your Email Address Has Been Compromised”

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

We’ve had a couple of reports from personnel and students about getting messages with a subject of “Your Email Address Has Been Compromised” (notice the capitalisation of every word, which is one of the signs of phishing)

The scammers have spoofed the recipient (your e-mail address to read info@verify.com) and the sender seems to come from a compromised university account in the USA (address end with an .edu)

The subject says: “Your Email Address Has Been Compromised” and a link Verify HERE is included which takes you to a website ending with a “weebly.com”. It looks already as if the website is offline or has already been blocked by Information Technology, but you should never click on links in mail if the sender is unknown.

Keep in mind, Information Technology will never send you such a mail, telling you that your e-mail address has been compromised. All IT’s communications are bilingual and will always address you personally.

If you get mail like this and you are not sure if it is legitimate or not, you should never click links or respond but rather contact IT telephonically at 808 4367 to verify. 

Information Technology will send you an automated mail IF you have changed your password on the network that is branded, is bilingual, and informs you of a password change, but it is always better to check and make sure especially if you HAVEN’T changed your password or don’t recall if you have changed your password.

Here is an example of the current phishing scam.

 

 

If you have received mail that looks like this please immediately report it to the Information Technology Security Team using the following method:

Send the spam/phishing mail to the following addresses

help@sun.ac.za

…and sysadm@sun.ac.za as well.

 Attach the phishing or suspicious mail on to the message if possible. There is a good tutorial on how to do this at the following link (Which is safe) : http://stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za/innov/it/it-help/Wiki%20Pages/Spam%20sysadmin%20Eng.aspx

  1. Start up a new mail addressed to sysadm@sun.ac.za (CC: help@sun.ac.za)
  2. Use the Title “SPAM” (without quotes) in the Subject.
  3. With this New Mail window open, drag the suspicious spam/phishing mail from your Inbox into the New Mail Window. It will attach the mail as an enclosure and a small icon with a light yellow envelope will appear in the attachments section of the New Mail.
  4. Send the mail.

If you did click on the link of this phishing spam and unwittingly give the scammers your username, e-mail address and password you should immediately go to http://www.sun.ac.za/useradm and change the passwords on ALL your university accounts (making sure the new password is completely different, and is a strong password that will not be easily guessed.) as well as changing the passwords on your social media and private e-mail accounts (especially if you use the same passwords on these accounts.)

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Phishing: Subject “Unusual Login Attempt”

Monday, October 30th, 2017

A new phishing attempt on staff and students of Stellenbosch University by means of a fake website was launched earlier this week. The website has been blocked by IT in the meantime so you will not be able to access it. 

The mail will be simple with a subject line of “Unusual Login Attempt”. 

The recipient field has been spoofed to hide the sender and recipient and the content of the mail is simply a link that says:

“For Details Verify” (with the Verify links to a website called “stellenboschuniversity.weebly.com”) (See example below)

If you suspect an email is a phishing attempt, please immediately report it to the Information Technology Security Team. With your help, we can block the malicious website as soon as possible and quarantine the compromised sun account from which the email is sent. If you are not sure how to recognise a phishing email, here are a few tips. Also have a look at examples of previous phishing attempts.

Instructions to report a phishing, spam or malware incident.

If you did click on the link of this phishing spam and unwittingly give the scammers your username, e-mail address and password you should immediately go to http://www.sun.ac.za/useradm and change the passwords on ALL your university accounts (making sure the new password is completely different, and is a strong password that will not be easily guessed.) as well as changing the passwords on your social media and private e-mail accounts (especially if you use the same passwords on these accounts.)

[ARTICLE BY DAVID WILES]

 

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PHISHING: Absa Surecheck Profile App

Monday, October 16th, 2017

Over the weekend and as already reported by a number of Tygerberg colleagues & students, a variant of last week’s ABSA phishing scam has started flooding our email.

The tactics have changed slightly and the criminals are now using a South African domain name to launch their attack. Below is the example of the phishing email, with the forged “ABSA Bank” login page to attempt to convince you to give your bank details willingly to the scammers.

The subject of the email is “Absa Surecheck Profile App – Upgrade | FICA information” which is designed to say absolutely nothing. It is what is known in information technology circles as “techno-babble”

While the methods used to steal a your banking details may differ, the process followed by fraudsters to steal money from their victims in South Africa are nearly always the same:

  1. Get the person’s Internet banking details, typically through a phishing attack. (as shown below)
  2. Get a banking account/s to which money can be transferred to and withdrawn.
  3. Clone the SIM card used by the victim.
  4. Create beneficiaries (using the list of banking accounts) and transfer money to these beneficiaries.
  5. Withdraw the money from these accounts.

Here are the obvious warning signs:

  1. The sender is not an ABSA email account (in this case a “throwaway” German email account used to send millions of phishing e-mails)
  2. Vague and deceptive subject lines (Techno-babble)
  3. An attached file (.htm) that contains a web page that opens up in your browser and links in the background to the server in South Africa.
  4. Impersonal salutation. “Dear Valued Customer”. Banks will never address you like this. They have your money – so it stands to reason that they will know your name as well.
  5. “Online verification” has **** to convince you that the email is genuine, but university addresses end with ac.za, not co.za.

 

The web page that you are directed to is actually the .htm file based on your computer (as an attachment, but links directly to the phishing server in the background.)

In this case is iteron.co.za which is listed as “undergoing maintenance” but is fully functional in the background.

 

 

If you have received an email that looks like this please immediately report it to the Information Technology Security Team using the following method:

Send the spam/phishing email to the following addresses

help@sun.ac.za

…and sysadm@sun.ac.za as well.

 Attach the phishing or suspicious email on to the message if possible. There is a good tutorial on how to do this at the following link (Which is safe): http://stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za/innov/it/it-help/Wiki%20Pages/Spam%20sysadmin%20Eng.aspx

  1. Start up a new email addressed to sysadm@sun.ac.za (CC: help@sun.ac.za)
  2. Use the Title “SPAM” (without quotes) in the Subject.
  3. With this New Mail window open, drag the suspicious spam/phishing email from your Inbox into the New Mail Window. It will attach the email as an enclosure and a small icon with a light yellow envelope will appear in the attachments section of the New Mail.
  4. Send the email.

If you did click on the link of this phishing spam and unwittingly give the scammers your username, e-mail address and password you should immediately go to http://www.sun.ac.za/useradm and change the passwords on ALL your university accounts (making sure the new password is completely different, and is a strong password that will not be easily guessed.) as well as changing the passwords on your social media and private e-mail accounts (especially if you use the same passwords on these accounts.)

[ARTICLE BY DAVID WILES]

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PHISHING: “Confirm your email account”

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017

The latest phishing attempt uses a rather obtuse message about “confirming your email account” to prevent a shutdown of your account. It also used your email address in the salutation, which might fool some people, thinking it is genuine.

Information Technology would never send out an email like this, lacking personal salutations, direct contact via telephone, and threatening to close your account down. 

Here is the phishing e-mail example below with the dangerous parts removed. Do not click on the link or provide any personal information. Luckily the phishing email and the server comes from the Far East, so it should be rather obvious that it is a scam:

This is what the phishing website looks like. 

If you have received mail that looks like this please immediately report it to the Information Technology Security Team by sending an email to help@sun.ac.za.

 Attach the phishing or suspicious mail on to the message if possible. There is a good tutorial on how to do this at the following link (Which is safe) : http://stbsp01.stb.sun.ac.za/innov/it/it-help/Wiki%20Pages/Spam%20sysadmin%20Eng.aspx

  1. Start up a new mail addressed to sysadm@sun.ac.za (CC: help@sun.ac.za)
  2. Use the Title “SPAM” (without quotes) in the Subject.
  3. With this New Mail window open, drag the suspicious spam/phishing mail from your Inbox into the New Mail Window. It will attach the mail as an enclosure and a small icon with a light yellow envelope will appear in the attachments section of the New Mail.
  4. Send the mail.

If you did click on the link of this phishing spam and unwittingly give the scammers your username, e-mail address and password you should immediately go to http://www.sun.ac.za/useradm and change the passwords on ALL your university accounts (making sure the new password is completely different, and is a strong password that will not be easily guessed.) as well as changing the passwords on your social media and private e-mail accounts (especially if you use the same passwords on these accounts.)

[ARTICLE BY DAVID WILES]

 

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