One major issue we've been having lately is with phishing emails being
targeted at us. They're being sent to us from hacked accounts at other
educational institutes. The message usually is about "Your EDU webmail
account is expiring. Please send us your username and password to fix it."
We've had some users fall for it, then their Exchange account gets turned
into a spam machine (sending out usual junk spam as well as the original
phishing message.) Because they are coming from legitimate sites, it's been
very difficult to block these messages. I've been trying to write phrase
rules with common words used in the message, but whoever's responsible for
this is continually changing the message to prevent you from being able to
catch them with phrase rules. Any thoughts?

 

Thomas E. Casartello, Jr.

Staff Assistant - Wireless Technician/Linux Administrator

Information Technology

Wilson 105A

Westfield State College

(413) 572-8245

 

Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT)

 

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