by Kiara Posey Troy University was recently faced with a security incident affecting faculty, staff and students. Many experienced a large-scale social engineering attack, where adversaries masqueraded themselves as Troy IT. Users received phishing emails claiming their mailboxes had hit their quota and urged them to follow the embedded instructions. In addition, the scammers made telephone calls impersonating Troy IT— going so far as manipulating caller IDs to phone numbers assigned to Troy University. Troy IT has since found the source of the scams and is taking action with a…
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