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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re seeing some phishing messages from a compromised OSU account. The subject lines look legit, and indeed are subject lines from old Physics dept emails, but the content of the message says
<b>“Cannot show this email</b>” and then asks you to click a link to view the message. Thankfully in this case I just saw, the link was malformed, therefore non-functional. This doesn’t change the fact that at a quick glance it was passable as real.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While we recently did modify a number of our listservs to reject non-OSU senders, we must all keep our eyes open for phishing attempts,
<i>even when coming from what appear to be trusted people at Ohio State</i>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A good, but not foolproof, way of validating things is to hover your mouse over email links, to see where the link actually leads. If it’s not going to a trusted site, don’t click!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You should also keep an eye out for poor spelling or grammar when the emails pose as official university correspondence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information on how to recognize phishing, read here:
<a href="https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/cybersecurity-you/avoid-threats/phishing">
https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/cybersecurity-you/avoid-threats/phishing</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Whenever you see suspected phishing messages, you can forward them to
<a href="mailto:report-phish@osu.edu">report-phish@osu.edu</a> so that the email teams can be aware of the threat.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white">Andrew D. Canale</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">Systems Manager</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BB0000;background:white">College of Arts and Sciences</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> Technology Services</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
<span style="background:white">1199 Physics Research Building, 191 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210</span><br>
<span style="background:white">614-292-4767 Office</span><br>
</span><a href="mailto:canale.6@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">canale.6@osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> </span><a href="http://asctech.osu.edu/" target="_BLANK"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">asctech.osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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