Information: SPF-Records as of 15.08.2022

To mitigate the risk of sender forgery and thus to improve e-mail security, the SPF policies for domains maintained by the GWDG will be tightened on August 15th, 2022, as already announced in the GWDG Nachrichten 6/2022. Therefore we ask once again all administrators who maintain their own e-mail servers in e-mail domains managed by the … Read more

Warning: Phishing e-mail in circulation

Message-Id: 202207140924 Time: 14.07.2022 Affected: All GWDG users Impact: Delivery of a phishing e-mail There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. We especially want to draw attention to e-mails where the sender pretends to be a colleague or superior and ask for a favor. Please be cautious. You can find current fishing mails here.

Warning: Virus e-mails in circulation

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202206141122″ time=”14.06.2022″ affected=”E-Mail user” impact=”” ][/sc] Currently, many emails are being sent that contain an encrypted ZIP file and the password to open the file in the text. In some cases, these mails even refer to mails that were previously sent via mailing lists in order to increase the credibility of the fake … Read more

Malfunction solved: E-mail signature service of the GWDG

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202205021806″ time=”30th April 2022, 16:23 – 2nd May 2022, 16:30″ affected=”Automated e-mails that are using the signing service of the GWDG.” impact=”E-mails were not sent.” ][/sc] Due to a certificate error in the e-mail signature service of the GWDG, automated e-mails (e.g. from the Identity Management of the GWDG) were not delivered in … Read more

Malfunction: Problem with mail delivery to Gmail accounts

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202203020949″ time=”since 01.03.2022″ affected=”GWDG user” impact=”Email cannot be delivered” ][/sc] Since yesterday mail delivery to Gmail accounts is disrupted. Some emails to Gmail accounts are being rejected. Unfortunately, the error pattern is still unclear. We ask you to resend the rejected emails.

Warning: Phishing mail

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202202220935″ time=”22.02.20222 since 09:35 a.m.” affected=”All GWDG users” impact=”Delivery of Phishing Mail” ][/sc] There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. https://info.gwdg.de/docs/doku.php?id=en:services:it_security:current_phishing-emails:start

Warning: Phishing mail

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202202141255″ time=”14.02.20222 since 12:40 p.m.” affected=”All GWDG users” impact=”Delivery of Phishing Mail” ][/sc] There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. https://info.gwdg.de/docs/doku.php?id=en:services:it_security:current_phishing-emails:start

Warning: Phishing mail

[sc name=”head_betriebsmeldungen_en” message_id=”202202110946″ time=”11.02.20222 since 09:38 a.m.” affected=”All GWDG users” impact=”Delivery of Phishing Mail” ][/sc] There is currently another phishing e-mail in circulation. https://info.gwdg.de/docs/doku.php?id=en:services:it_security:current_phishing-emails:start