Here in BC, with the COVID-related announcements of the past couple of days, the stage has been set for Cybercriminals to try and take advantage of us yet again.<\/p>\n
The Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n Starting back in June, cyber security firm Proofpoint noted a sharp rise in pandemic-related phishing attempts.\u00a0 Interestingly, this spike coincided with a spike in Google searches for \u201cdelta variant\u201d.<\/p>\n What followed are classic cybercriminal tactics.\u00a0 COVID-19 phishing emails have started to re-emerge, this time focused on the uncertainties related to the delta variant, vaccination requirements, etc.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an example \u2013 note the name of the file being shared:<\/p>\n Pretty scary, eh?\u00a0 And, with employers starting to ask for proof of vaccination, requiring return-to-office forms to be completed, etc. you can see why it\u2019s working. It\u2019s fertile ground for phishing and ransomware<\/strong> attacks. Proofpoint uncovered major phishing campaigns posing as corporate human resource departments and asking recipients to submit information about their vaccination status, etc. Links in these emails probably led to fake Microsoft sign-in pages (such as the one above), with the goal of stealing employees\u2019 log-ins.<\/p>\n What YOU can do to stay Cyber Safe<\/strong><\/p>\n Treat ANY<\/u><\/strong> COVID-related email as suspicious and do the following:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n RRU Computer Help Desk<\/p>\n (250)391.2659<\/p>\n https:\/\/confluence.royalroads.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n or:<\/p>\n IT Security:<\/p>\n (250)391.2600 x4975<\/p>\n securityawareness@royalroads.ca<\/a><\/p>\n As always \u2013 STOP! THINK! CONNECT<\/strong> will help you stay safe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here in BC, with the COVID-related announcements of the past couple of days, the stage has been set for Cybercriminals to try and take advantage of us yet again. The Issue Starting back in June, cyber security firm Proofpoint noted… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/studentlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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