Schlagwort: ‘phishing’
Phishing Attack on RWTH E-Mail Accounts: Data Theft –Not with us!
Hardly a day goes by without the media reporting on data theft by phishing, Trojans and so forth. The RWTH Aachen University has also been attacked recently. Already for several months, our mailboxes have been flooded with SPAM mails. For us as IT provider of the RWTH Aachen University this means that we do not want to let you fall into the phishing traps and other similar dangers.
In this blog post, you will find everything you need to know to protect your data and mailboxes from phishing, so that data theft does not happen in the first place.
Keeping You Safe II – Our Security Note on Spear-Phishing Attacks
Targeted Phishing: Spear Phishing is a serious threat to our data.
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According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), both universities and research institutions are in danger regarding them. What we are talking about here are spear phishing attacks. This is the technical term for very tricky cyber-attacks with targeted e-mails. This time, however, the wave of attacks is particularly vicious: the mails that are sent contain links to realistically simulated fake websites of the particular institutions and request users to enter their access data.
Safety first: Beware of Phishing Mails with RWTH names!
Students and RWTH employees often receive e-mails from official university addresses in their digital mailboxes. But if the sender says “RWTH”, are they really from a person who is a member of the university?
Unfortunately not always and therefore caution is necessary!
Caution before opening your e-mails!
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