The email filtering system is working hard to minimise the annoying and sometimes dangerous emails which get through to schools.
The following information is from Tuesday 25th August 2015. During that day there were two Spear-phishing attacks against Moray schools, both of these were blocked.
The first one involved 1041 emails which were sent to schools and claimed to contain an invoice for the recipient at the school. The attachment on the emails contained a macro which would have initiated a malware install.
The second attack was a batch of 577 emails claiming to contain details of the target schools’ VISA transactions for the month. This email looked genuine and even had a footer which claimed that the email “has been checked for viruses”, again it contained a word document with a downloader macro.
A little over half of the email into schools at the moment is being blocked as either SPAM or Suspected SPAM (Normally Phishing emails).
The SPAM filter is working hard to protect schools and to minimise the amount of annoying and unsafe email which reaches them. As always email users are encouraged to ensure that they only open emails, especially with attachments, that are from senders that they know.
