Advisories & Alerts

Phish Alert - Confirm your email ID now

Dear Account owner, This is a message to you from The York University, to all the (YU)email account owners. We are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance  upgrade of our webmail service and we are changing our web mail host server to prevent scam mails. as a result, your original password will be reset. We do apologize […]

Phish Alert - Re-validate your mailbox

Subject: Dear Account User. Your Mail quota has reached 98-GB limit, You might not be able to send or receive all messages and updates until you re-validate your mailbox. To re-validate your mailbox, Kindly Submit the below of your mailbox details for re-confirmation: {user-name : {Password : {Confirm Password : Failure to reconfirm your account, […]

Email Ransomware Alert (Locky)

A new variant of a crypto-ransomware, dubbed as "Locky", has recently been discovered and is spreading via email in the form of a Word document attachment with malicious macros. The ransomware encrypts files on a victim's computer, adds a ".locky" file extension to them and demands that the victim pay a ransom for the decryption […]