Today we identified a phishing attack against a number of TCNJ users. This email comes from an outside email address and is impersonating a faculty member at TCNJ. The attacker will respond with a URL to visit if someone replies with interest in the job offer. This URL will take the victim to a site… Continue Reading
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023
Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023! Cybersecurity is widely becoming something that everyone should be aware of. This month we promote awareness among TCNJ employees and encourage you to promote cybersecurity awareness outside of TCNJ as well. You should have received an email regarding our annual training program, but if you have not, the email… Continue Reading
[PHISH] Retirement and Pension Meetings for TCNJ Employees
A number of TCNJ users were sent this unsolicited email from an outside source. TCNJ does not use this service or know its legitimacy as a service. We recommend you do not communicate with the sender or click any links contained within the email. Continue Reading
[PHISH] – Your Email @tcnj.edu will be blocked
We have received notification from a number of users that they have received an email that appears like the one below. The sender field will contain mail.tcnj.edu and the email address of the user and the email subject will indicate your email address will be blocked. This email contains a link that will attempt to… Continue Reading
[PHISH] Cell Number Phish from icloud.com emails
We have received reports where a number of icloud.com email addresses are sending in emails impersonating TCNJ employees and requesting user cell phone numbers. The email from address contains the employees name but the email address contains a misspelled or imitated office title and ends in @icloud.com. The attackers are also including an official looking… Continue Reading
[PHISH] Invoice XXXXXXXXX from PPal Sales
We have received notification of a possible PayPal invoice phishing scam being sent to users. The email address appears to be quickbooks@notification.intuit.com but investigation indicates replies will be sent elsewhere. Screenshots are below. Do not interact with the sender by replying or clicking any links within the email. If you receive any invoices you were… Continue Reading
PHISH – Confirm Account
The email below is a phishing email. It contains a link that leads to a malicious page, please do not click any links contained within and delete the email. Continue Reading
IT SECURITY ALERTs Phish
Below is an image of an email sent by a Tony Burr. Even though this came from a Google Drive sharing address, this is instead a phishing email impersonating a TCNJ employee. These often contain a mismatched sender to the person stated as the file sharer. You can also see the sender address is not… Continue Reading
PHISH – Retirement And Pension Meetings for The College of New Jersey Employees
An email was recently sent to a wide number of TCNJ employees in regards to retirement advisory. This is not a provider that TCNJ uses and is unsolicited spam email. As with any email received from an external 3rd party, be extremely careful with any information you provide to them. See below for screenshot of… Continue Reading
It’s Cybersecurity Month 2022!
It’s October, and that means it’s Cybersecurity Month! This year’s theme for Cybersecurity Month is “See Yourself in Cyber.” Seeing yourself in cybersecurity means to look at the things you do every day, both at work, at home and elsewhere, and see where you can do things to better protect yourself and others. Things such… Continue Reading