Georgia Tech Cyber Security

Georgia Tech Cyber Security - Phish Bowl

The Phish Bowl is a list of recent email messages that were reported to GT Cyber Security and confirmed to be a widespread phishing message (or was errantly reported as a phishing message and is actually a legitimate email).

If you have received any of the messages listed below as a confirmed phishing email, do not follow the link(s) in the message; simply delete it. If you have already fallen for one of the messages listed below, please contact your department's CSR or, if you are a student, the OIT TSC.

2018-09-27

Phishing Message

Description:

There have been a series of emails recently trying to extort payment from victims. The emails are targeting users based on breached passwords available on the internet. Next, they mention that they have graphic footage of the user that will be distributed to their contact list unless they receive a bitcoin payment.

Image of Message:

Permalink: https://stats.security.gatech.edu/phishbowl/?notice=151

Notes:

The emails listed on this site are only those that are reported to GT Cyber Security as phishing. You may likely receive phishing email messages that are not listed here; you should learn to identify phish emails and how to report them to GT Cyber Security (see links above).
You may recieve a phishing message whose text matches an example listed here, but has a different web link (that is a different phishing URL). Phishers will sometimes send out the same message to different email addresses, varying the url between a set of different phishing URLs.

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