Alert: Recent Spear Phishing at Denison

Some individuals have reported receiving spear phishing* emails from the President, Provost, and Chief of Staff. The sender addresses of these emails typically appear as BigRedID.denison.edu@gmail.com. Gmail commonly flags these emails as potential phishing attempts within a yellow banner in the email message. If you receive an email like this, please report such emails as phishing using the button provided in the yellow banner. If you don’t receive that option, you can also use this approach to report a phishing email.

 

(*Spear Phishing is an email targeted at a specific individual or department within an organization that appears to be from a trusted source.)