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Re: Phishing Attack


From: Ronald King <ronald.king () MORGAN EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:25:07 -0400

Thank you all who have responded.

*Ronald A. King, CISSP*
Chief Information Security Officer
Morgan State University Office: (443) 885-3372
1700 E. Cold Spring Ln. Email: ronald.king () morgan edu
Baltimore, MD 21251 URL: http://www.morgan.edu

*Growing the future ... Leading the world*
<http://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ABOUT/StrategicPlan/StrategicPlan2011-21_Final.pdf>


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Victor Fayed <fayedv () meredith edu> wrote:

We did get a few hundred of these with a link to the "password
verification form" being hosted on PageCloud.

It's worth mentioning that Pagecloud's support were pretty quick
responding and taking the malicious site down.

*************************Sample***********************

From: *Meredith College* <
​...####​
whangasurf@
​....​
clear.net.nz
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__clear.net.nz_&d=DwMFaQ&c=0CCt47_3RbNABITTvFzZbA&r=hF9utfnfkGfY793x81M4Gr0nwxs9KYTZ6TUPUh4wPjs&m=CAeKzzmxr_y8JkU0TftcMgcH-gcsn3C0h2gqs2ywpVo&s=8_PGD3a7zoDFgzJEv8PT1MP3R4u0R1LonNbpia07sX4&e=>
​####​

Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Subject: Alert!!
To: info
​..##
@
​##​
mail
​##​
.##com


Meredith College performs computer system and network
infrastructure maintenance, verify your email before the
next 24hours:
​http##:##/
/##meredithedu
​​
.pagecloud
​###
c
​o
m
​##

*************************Sample***********************

​Regards,

Victor Fayed
Office of Technology Services
Meredith College
​3800 Hillsborough Street
<https://maps.google.com/?q=3800+Hillsborough+StreetRaleigh,+NC+27607&entry=gmail&source=g>
Raleigh, NC 27607
<https://maps.google.com/?q=3800+Hillsborough+StreetRaleigh,+NC+27607&entry=gmail&source=g>
​


Technology Services will never ask for your password... Never give your
passwords to anybody
​.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Ronald King <ronald.king () morgan edu>
wrote:

Anyone else get bombarded with a phishing attack with sites created on
Yolasite or Pagecloud tonight? Just checking to see how targeted it may
have been.

Thanks,
*Ronald A. King, CISSP*
Chief Information Security Officer
Morgan State University Office: (443) 885-3372
1700 E. Cold Spring Ln
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D1700-2BE.-2BCold-2BSpring-2BLn-26entry-3Dgmail-26source-3Dg&d=DwMFaQ&c=0CCt47_3RbNABITTvFzZbA&r=hF9utfnfkGfY793x81M4Gr0nwxs9KYTZ6TUPUh4wPjs&m=CAeKzzmxr_y8JkU0TftcMgcH-gcsn3C0h2gqs2ywpVo&s=gBuG08z6jbzc7RPJLju9-ndHggDA263yt3ZbEQaN46U&e=>
. Email: ronald.king () morgan edu
Baltimore, MD 21251 URL: http://www.morgan.edu

*Growing the future ... Leading the world*
<http://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ABOUT/StrategicPlan/StrategicPlan2011-21_Final.pdf>




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