{"id":1134,"date":"2022-08-24T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:49:12","slug":"new-fax-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/08\/24\/new-fax-message\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW FAX MESSAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This phish has variations, but the common thing is to click to get a document, a voicemail, etc. The one circulating today pretends you received a fax (somewhere?!) and it is one click away. What happens actually when you click is that a browser window opens and a .jar file downloads automatically.\u00a0 Jar files are Java programs, and this one is a malicious one. Once downloaded, there is a chance you click on it, the program executes and your computer gets infected.<br \/>\nPlease report such phish, do not be curious and do not click on the buttons.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1135\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/08\/phish-2022-08-24A.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/08\/phish-2022-08-24A.png 955w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/08\/phish-2022-08-24A-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/08\/phish-2022-08-24A-768x351.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish has variations, but the common thing is to click to get a document, a voicemail, etc. The one circulating today pretends you received a fax (somewhere?!) and it is one click away. What happens actually when you click is that a browser window opens and a .jar file downloads automatically.\u00a0 Jar files are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/08\/24\/new-fax-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NEW FAX MESSAGE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","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\/1134","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\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}