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Phishing Emails

UIT Alert: Phishing Emails

Current Status

ResolvedOffice 365 and Dropbox phishing emails

Affected Services

No services are affected by this event.

Event Updates

ResolvedOffice 365 and Dropbox phishing emails
July 19, 2018 , 10:15 AM

UH Faculty and Staff,

Multiple phishing messages has been detected at UH originating from UH email addresses.  The messages have subject lines such as “Termination Notice” or "Sent You Document via Dropbox".  The message body may reference either Office 365 account termination or viewing a folder via Dropbox.

These messages are NOT official messages from University of Houston employees.

Do not click on the website links in the messages.  If you clicked a link and entered your username and password change your password immediately (www.uh.edu/password) and contact UIT Security at security@uh.edu or via phone at 832-842-4695.

Mary E. Dickerson, MBA, CISSP, CISM, PMP
Assistant Vice-President | Assistant Vice-Chancellor, IT Security
Chief Information Security Officer
University of Houston | University of Houston System
phone: 832-842-4679
email: mdickerson@uh.edu

This is an official alert issued by UH IT Security. To verify the validity of this message, you can visit the UH IT website at uh.edu/uit or contact UIT Security at 832-842-4695 or via email at security@uh.edu.