[Plantsci] FW: spear phishing incident today

Marquez, Mario A - (marquezm) marquezm at email.arizona.edu
Tue May 3 12:40:38 MST 2016


5/2/16 File Message!
UA Information Security received a phishing email report, where recipients are directed to click on a link and use their "UAccess credentials" to login to a site.

If you receive this email, please delete it from your inbox.  If you clicked on the link, entered any information, or responded to the email in any way, please contact your local IT Support or the 24/7 IT Support Center (626-8324) as soon as possible.

Email text:
FROM:  Dropbox <EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED>
SUBJECT:  File Message!

Hi!

You just received a file through Dropbox Share Application.
Please click the link below or paste it on your web browser and log in with your UAccess credentials to view.

<URL REMOVED>

Every time a friend installs Dropbox, we'll give both of you 1 GB of space for free!

Need even more space? Upgrade your Dropbox and get 1 TB (1,000 GB) of space.

Thanks,
- The Dropbox Team

Dropbox, Inc., ADDRESS REMOVED (c) 2016 Dropbox


Mario A. Marquez
Systems Administrator Principal
University of Arizona
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
School of  Plant Sciences
http://www.plssupport.arizona.edu/
marquezm at email.arizona.edu<mailto:marquezm at email.arizona.edu>
Office 520-621-1257
Cell 520-429-2902
[UAriz-CALS-logo-247]

From: uainfosec-request at list.arizona.edu [mailto:uainfosec-request at list.arizona.edu] On Behalf Of Banks, Teresa E - (tbanks)
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 12:15 PM
To: uainfosec at list.arizona.edu
Subject: [uainfosec] spear phishing incident today

Good afternoon,

We have received a report of a spear phish with the subject line "File Message."  The sender directs the recipient to click on a link in the email and login using "Uaccess credentials" in order to receive a dropbox file.

Please inform your units of the phish, and that we have posted it at hxxp://security.arizona.edu/phishing-alerts/5216-file-message (copy and paste the URL, and replace "hxxp" with "http").

Thanks for your help!
Teresa

Teresa E. Banks
Manager, Information Security
   & Compliance Programs
UA Information Security
The University of Arizona

Email:  tbanks at email.arizona.edu<mailto:tbanks at email.arizona.edu>
Office:  520.621.8476
Cell:  520.909.6057
Web:  http://security.arizona.edu<http://security.arizona.edu/>

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