{"id":1089,"date":"2022-07-29T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T18:48:11","slug":"action-required-password-expiry-notification-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/07\/29\/action-required-password-expiry-notification-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Required <Password Expiry Notification .ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

This email was mostly received by recipients in a particular department, hence could be a case of spear-phishing.<\/p>\n

It had the usual tactics of creating a sense of urgency that your email account is about to expire so verify it by clicking on phisher’s link.<\/p>\n

Warning signs: sender name is ‘Uvic Notification’ and sender email is external, vague signature ‘Web Administrator’ (not a UVic signature), if you hover over the link you would know the link is external (you will never be asked to verify a UVic account on a external domain).<\/p>\n

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Whenever in doubt, you can contact your DSS support or helpdesk for confirmation. It is always best to be cautious than be curious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This email was mostly received by recipients in a particular department, hence could be a case of spear-phishing. It had the usual tactics of creating a sense of urgency that your email account is about to expire so verify it by clicking on phisher’s link. Warning signs: sender name is ‘Uvic Notification’ and sender email … Continue reading Action Required <Password Expiry Notification .ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}