Month: June 2017

NYU IT has been notified by Homeland Security about an emerging ransomware email threat (a new strand of Petya) occurring in many countries around the world, and NYU’s Office of Information Security is actively monitoring for any impact at NYU.  Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer and restricts users’ access […]

There has been a recent uptick noted in the delivery of phishing via SMS text messages (a/k/a “SMiShing”) in the form “URL padding” or the front loading of a web address of a malicious site with a legitimate domain name. The goal of these attacks is credential stealing as users are prompted to enter their […]