From the Daily Californian: Most know better than to wire money to a Nigerian prince — but today’s scammers have adapted their strategies, according to Charron Andrus, associate chief information security officer at UC Berkeley. “Phishing,” according to UC Berkeley’s Information Security Office, is when “cyber criminals trick you into giving them your personal information, like passwords or credit card details, by pretending to be a legitimate company or person.” To do this, they often send fake emails and messages, or even create fake websites.
Undoubtedly, phishing has made its way to UC Berkeley. The ASUC Communications email account was hacked, and unauthorized phishing messages were sent from its email address to additional recipients before the ASUC Communications team could recover the account. The ASUC Communications email account received a phishing message on Aug. 11 disguised as a Google Docs proposal, according to ASUC Chief Communications Officer Juliette Rackohn. The phishing email came from a hacked UC Berkeley email address with which the ASUC Communications account had previously corresponded.
The ASUC account and the hacked UC Berkeley account were secured, though not before unauthorized messages were sent to other recipients, according to Rackohn...
I don't know if the Nigerian princes are still out there, but there are still old-fashioned hacks floating around. Received a few days ago:
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