UCOP
Faked E-mail Messages
March 3, 2004
To: UCOP Personnel
From: Patrick Collins, Director, IR&C Information and Communication
Services
UCOP personnel are receiving e-mail messages that contain viruses
but look
as though they were sent from a legitimate UCOP e-mail account.
These
messages are faking or "spoofing" UCOP addresses such as
"management@ucop.edu," or "administrator@ucop.edu." The subjects
of the
messages refer to UCOP e-mail accounts. Examples are "Notify about
your
e-mail account utilization," and "Email account utilization warning."
Please do not open the attachments but instead delete both the
message and
the attachment. (Deleting an e-mail message does not necessarily
delete the
attachment.) IR&C is working to address the cause of this attack
and will
provide more information later.
If you opened an attachment to one of these e-mails, please contact
your
departmental PC coordinator immediately.
