Today we detected a phishing email that attempts to harvest TCNJ user credentials. The email claims to offer a $700 benefit to employees. The email address comes from outside the TCNJ environment and is generic in its email body. If you visited this site and entered any credentials, change your TCNJ password immediately. The landing… Continue Reading
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[PHISH] Student Employment Hiring Contract
We’ve discovered a phishing campaign directed at a number of TCNJ users in which the attacker is impersonating Lea DiFonzo. The email offers a remote assistant research position. Do not reply or interact with this attacker as they will likely attempt to gather your personal information or attempt to get you to purchase gift cards… Continue Reading
[PHISH] Job Offer Phishing Attack
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
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
TIAA MOVEit Transfer Breach Notification
TCNJ has been notified by Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA) that a 3rd party vendor they use, Pension Benefit Information, LLC (PBI), had a data breach of their MOVEit transfer service. PBI has mailed notification letters to the affected individuals. If you have received a notification letter, we suggest you take advantage of the… 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 – 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
Assistant Job Scam
There have been a number of reports of an outside party impersonating a TCNJ professor offering a a job to students. This is a scam. A TCNJ professor will never reach out to any students on their personal email accounts and ask the student to be their assistant. Any unsolicited messages should be scrutinized, especially… 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