Malicious Email – IT Security

Simulated Phishing Email of June 2025 – “Dubai End of Academic Year Arrangements” Has Been Shared With You

Can you trust this page?If you look in the address bar (at the top of this page) you will see that this page is on the blog.bham.ac.uk site. This tells you that the page is within the bham.ac.uk internet domain which is owned by the University of Birmingham. If you came to this page to confirm if a test phishing … Continue reading “Simulated Phishing Email of June 2025 – “Dubai End of Academic Year Arrangements” Has Been Shared With You”

Simulated Phishing Email of May 2025 – “Microsoft Suspicious Login Alert”

Can you trust this page?If you look in the address bar (at the top of this page) you will see that this page is on the blog.bham.ac.uk site. This tells you that the page is within the bham.ac.uk internet domain which is owned by the University of Birmingham. If you came to this page to confirm if a test phishing … Continue reading “Simulated Phishing Email of May 2025 – “Microsoft Suspicious Login Alert””

Simulated Phishing Email of April 2025 – “Your HMRC Tax Refund Notification”

Can you trust this page?If you look in the address bar (at the top of this page) you will see that this page is on the blog.bham.ac.uk site. This tells you that the page is within the bham.ac.uk internet domain which is owned by the University of Birmingham. If you came to this page to confirm if a test phishing … Continue reading “Simulated Phishing Email of April 2025 – “Your HMRC Tax Refund Notification””

Simulated Phishing Email of March 2025 – “Finmal Account Reminder”

Simulated Phishing Email of January 2025

Simulated Phishing Email of October 2023

On Tuesday 24 October, IT Security sent a number of staff a simulated phishing email claiming HR shared a file with you. The Subject was ‘Holiday Entitlement Changes’ available through SharePoint, and contained a link to a Word document called Holiday Entitlement Changes. If you tried to open that document you were asked for your … Continue reading “Simulated Phishing Email of October 2023”

Phishing, Scams and Other Malicious email

Criminals are sending out millions of malicious emails every day. Often these are trying to steal your personal details, including your banking information or your University login details. Some might trick you into running malware on your phone, tablet, or computer. How do I spot these? Generally, if they look suspicious, they are. If something … Continue reading “Phishing, Scams and Other Malicious email”

Increase in Phishing Attacks

We have had a lot of phishing attacks recently, many coming from University staff and student accounts that have given their username and password in response to an earlier attack. A lot of people are responding to these. The wording varies, but all follow a very traditional pattern for phishing messages. They include emails telling … Continue reading “Increase in Phishing Attacks”

Covid variation of Gift Card Scam

Earlier this year we published an article on the Gift Card Scam. We have had a few reports of variations in this scam, tailored for the current Covid-19 crisis. One example email started with the following. “Good morning Peter, I’m planning to surprise some of the staffs with gifts during this unprecedented health crises, your … Continue reading “Covid variation of Gift Card Scam”

Gift Card Scam

Quite a few people have reported a scam that is becoming common on campus and some have reported losing hundreds of pounds of their own money to scammers. Scammers are sending email from various external email accounts claiming to be from senior members of departments. These are often highly targeted so that the person they … Continue reading “Gift Card Scam”