{"id":2234,"date":"2025-11-10T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:41:50","slug":"uvic-2025-q4-compensation-payroll-snapshot-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2025\/11\/10\/uvic-2025-q4-compensation-payroll-snapshot-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Uvic 2025 Q4 Compensation &amp; Payroll Snapshot Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This phish is circulating today. The sender is spoofed as if internal. In fact it is external and scanning the QR code leads to visiting a malicious website. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/11\/compensationpayroll20221110C-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/11\/compensationpayroll20221110C-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/11\/compensationpayroll20221110C-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/11\/compensationpayroll20221110C-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/11\/compensationpayroll20221110C.png 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">screenshot of the phish message. The text is quoted below<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sender: Uvic &lt;Finance@uvic.ca&gt;<br>Subject: Uvic 2025 Q4 Compensation &amp; Payroll Snapshot Summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear &lt;your netlink&gt;,<br>2025 Q4 Compensation &amp; Payroll Snapshot Summary is now available for review.<br>For quick access, scan the QR code below:<br>&lt;qr code here&gt;<br>Recipient: &lt;your UVIc email address&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internal Use Only<br>This message is intended solely for the named recipient and contains confidential information for internal company use. Please do not forward or share access details.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish is circulating today. The sender is spoofed as if internal. In fact it is external and scanning the QR code leads to visiting a malicious website. Sender: Uvic &lt;Finance@uvic.ca&gt;Subject: Uvic 2025 Q4 Compensation &amp; Payroll Snapshot Summary Dear &lt;your netlink&gt;,2025 Q4 Compensation &amp; Payroll Snapshot Summary is now available for review.For quick access, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2025\/11\/10\/uvic-2025-q4-compensation-payroll-snapshot-summary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uvic 2025 Q4 Compensation &amp; Payroll Snapshot Summary<\/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":[4,7],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-phishing","tag-spoofed-email","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}