Phish Bowl Alerts
While not reported here at Brown, security vendors are warning of the following scam email that taps into concerns about the current international crisis in its attempt to prompt the recipient to report the user and unsubscribe.
As reported in the blogpost Unusual sign-in activity mail goes phishing for Microsoft account holders from Malwarebytes, if the recipient clicks on the provided button, instead of being forwarded to a report page, they are directed to a new email with a pre-filled message sent to a specific email account. Should you receive it, do not reply and instead mark it as phishing (open the message in a browser, click on the stack of three dots to the right of the REPLY button and select "Report phishing").
Unusual sign-in activity
We detected something unusual about a recent sign-in to the Microsoft account
Sign-in details
Country/region: Russia/Moscow
IP address:
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 02:31:23 +0100
Platform: Kali Linux
Browser: Firefox
A user from Russia/Moscow just logged into your account from a new device, If this wasn’t you, please report the user. If this was you, we’ll trust similar activity in the future.
Report the user
Thanks,
The Microsoft account team