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Learn how to recognize, avoid, and report phishing and scams at the University of Pittsburgh — across email, Microsoft Teams, calendar invites, text messages, and phone calls. Covers AI-written phishing, impersonation of trusted brands and services (Microsoft, Google, DocuSign, Zoom), social engineering and phone scams, how to verify links and senders, and how to report a suspicious message with the KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button (PAB). Also explains what to do if you think you fell for one.

Exchange Online Protection (EOP) filters spam, bulk mail, phishing, and malware on every Pitt mailbox. This article explains the difference between the Junk Email folder and quarantine, how to review and release quarantined messages at security.microsoft.com/quarantine, how to customize your safe-sender and blocked-sender lists, and how to report missed spam or phishing.

Pitt's Microsoft 365 mailboxes are protected by Exchange Online Protection and Microsoft Defender for Office 365, which together guard against phishing, business email compromise, malicious links
(Safe Links), and zero-day malware in attachments (Safe Attachments). This article explains how each layer works, what you may see in Outlook, and how to report a legitimate message that was incorrectly quarantined.

Understand Pitt Digital's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Framework and how it applies to different Microsoft 365 services

This article discusses the importance of message headers in reporting suspicious emails.