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MCC Daily Tribune

CyberCrime Alert: Persistent Phishing Campaign Targets MCC Community Again

Several employees have clicked on links or attachments in spoofed emails, which appear to be from someone within MCC, but are not. This has led to a large outbreak of viruses at the college.

A common sign that an email is not really from MCC is that instead of the From line in your inbox showing a normal MCC address header (Jaegger, Valerie (Technology Services)), it will just have a last name (Jaegger). Another sign is that there is often a reference to an invoice, as an attachment or a link. If you don't normally deal with invoices, or the request is coming from someone who normally would not deal with invoices, then assume it is a phishing email and do not click on any links or open any attachments. Clicking into these links can install software, or display very persuasive pages that look like legitimate requests for your user name and password. If you get a warning message, then stop. Don't fall for it.

If you are getting popups in the right hand corner of your computer saying "Threat Detected," TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF. Then call technical support at x8324, option 3.

If you have clicked on a suspicious link or an attachment, TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF. Then call technical support at x8324, option 3.

The cyber criminals are impersonating employee email accounts to accomplish their goals. Even if you think you could never fall for one of these emails, please look at the attached document to see examples of spoofed emails.

Please share this article with your coworkers and forward any spam to spamsubmission@monroecc.edu.

Attached Files:
Spoofing emails.pdf

Christine Gallion
Communications and Network Services
09/26/2018