Blocking Phishing on Student Devices

Students are frequent targets of online scams. Fake scholarship offers, free data or gaming rewards, fraudulent internship listings and messages pretending to be from the institution all aim to steal passwords, personal details or money.

Why students are targeted

Students use many online accounts, often reuse passwords and may be less familiar with scam tactics. Their institutional accounts can also give attackers access to campus systems.

How phishing works

A message arrives by email, SMS, WhatsApp or social media with an urgent request and a link. The link leads to a convincing fake login page or a malicious download.

How DNS filtering helps

When a student clicks a phishing link on the campus network, the device first looks up the website's address. If the domain is on a threat list, the lookup is blocked and the fake page never loads.

Fast-moving threats

New phishing domains appear constantly. Filtering services update threat intelligence continuously, including blocking newly registered suspicious domains.

Teach recognition

Run short awareness sessions showing real examples: unexpected prizes, urgent deadlines, misspelled domains and requests for OTPs or passwords.

Protect accounts

Encourage multi-factor authentication on institutional and personal accounts and discourage password reuse.

Make reporting easy

Give students a simple way to report suspicious messages so IT can warn others.

The bottom line

DNS filtering adds a safety net when students click the wrong link. Combined with awareness and MFA, it significantly reduces phishing risk on campus.

Learn more about Cloud DNS for Campuses from UbiFi, or talk to our team.