[CS] recent phishing emails

Brent Busby via cs cs at mailman.cs.uchicago.edu
Tue Jan 14 12:21:00 CST 2025


There have been phishing emails lately to the effect that the department
is hiring, with the subject line "RESEARCH ASSISTANT NEEDED AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO," claiming that interested parties should email
the chair directly, and inviting recipients to reply to bogus email
addresses.  There is a suspiciously long list of recipients in the
header that might give away the spammy nature of the email, but just as
a precautionary advisory for any who have received this:

This is a bogus email.  Do not reply to it or click on any link in this
message.  All job offerings in the department will be posted officially,
and will not solicit anyone to email the chair directly.

IT Services keeps a public announcement of recent phishing messages here:

https://security.uchicago.edu/phishing/latest/

-- 
Brent Busby
Systems Administrator
Computer Science Department
The University of Chicago

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