How a Phishing Campaign Died Overnight: A Real Incident Response
It was September 2025. I had just finished packing. The next morning, I was supposed to head back to my hometown for a short holiday. Everything was calm until a friend texted me out of nowhere. He said he’d received an email from our university’s IT Director about a special enhanced version of RDS, our student portal. I laughed. “Why would you get a special version of RDS?” He replied that he was a scholarship holder, and that’s why. He also added that the email looked legit. ...