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[AllseeingEye]

Not strictly limited to Victoria or the island of course but this is surely BCG-related with province-wide implications. It appears those nasty North Koreans are at it again (j/k) however looks like the government email system is hurting badly at the moment:

 

http://globalnews.ca...vernment-email/

 

[Nparker]

Government email was up and running again around 3:00 PM this afternoon after being down most of the day. Whatever the culprit was, it involved malicious emails that appeared to come from BC Gov't IDs with an attachment in the body of the message. It would appear the use of the legitimate IDs allowed the messages to circumvent SPAM filters. Staff were notified as follows:

 

Due to a number of malicious emails being replicated to government users, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) shut down access to email exchange as of 9:30 a.m., Thursday, December 18 in order to mitigate the issue. They have observed that emails are morphing into other variants and request that employees not open emails that zip files attached

[AllseeingEye]

Government email was up and running again around 3:00 PM this afternoon after being down most of the day. Whatever the culprit was, it involved malicious emails that appeared to come from BC Gov't IDs with an attachment in the body of the message. It would appear the use of the legitimate IDs allowed the messages to circumvent SPAM filters. Staff were notified as follows:

 

Due to a number of malicious emails being replicated to government users, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) shut down access to email exchange as of 9:30 a.m., Thursday, December 18 in order to mitigate the issue. They have observed that emails are morphing into other variants and request that employees not open emails that zip files attached

Which explains I think why one of our BCG client emails appeared out of nowhere in my Inbox 5 hours after it was sent. My support engineering team and I wondered why so I guess now we know......