Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for their witty meow clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) recently, a student from the University of Science and Technology of China posted on the social platform that they had received an email of "free moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival", but did not receive them after filling in the information. School officials said that this is actually "the first phishing email exercise in the whole school."

According to school emails, the exercise sent more than 45000 simulated phishing emails to teachers and students (including more than 38000 for students and 6000 for faculty). As of the morning of September 8, more than 3500 people submitted information on the forged unified identity authentication interface. According to the university, the largest number of freshmen are freshmen. They are relatively lack of relevant network security knowledge, the next step will focus on their network security training.

It is worth mentioning that in this phishing email exercise, China University of Science and Technology carefully designed several common fishing "loopholes", such as fake sender address: "vstc.edu.cn", non-existent department of the University of Science and Technology: "mailbox management center of China University of Science and Technology", wrong contact: non-6360 beginning, and so on.

According to data released by the University of Science and Technology of China, from January to August 2022, the university's mail server received a total of 110 million e-mails, of which 100 million, or 90%, were judged to be spam. From January to August, 2022, there were 921 accounts in the school mail server whose passwords were stolen by hackers to send spam, with an average of nearly 4 accounts being stolen every day. In 2022, the network information center directed to send fraudulent email reminders reached 2000 person-times.

According to the University of Science and Technology of China, it has been found that over the past month, lawbreakers have begun to write targeted phishing emails according to the characteristics of the school's personnel, and the means have become more and more covert. Please teachers and students must not relax their vigilance, so that criminals can take advantage of the opportunity!

The National Cyber Security week (hereinafter referred to as "Internet Security week") was held from September 5 to 11. The University of Science and Technology of China said that September 6 is the campus day of Internet Security week, which aims to enhance teachers and students' awareness of network security and protection skills. to create a campus network culture atmosphere of "green Internet, civilized Internet access and safe Internet access". The Office of Network Security and Information Technology and the Network Information Center jointly organized a series of activities, distributed network security brochures to teachers and students in various campuses on the same day, and arranged publicity video rotation at the campus bus stop. in addition, a prize competition was held in the square of the teacher and student activity center in the Eastern District.

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