{"id":259,"date":"2020-08-28T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=259"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:12:32","slug":"microsoft-verification-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/08\/28\/microsoft-verification-phish\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft verification phish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many UVic users received this phish today. It claims that &#8220;Microsoft Verification is required&#8221; and supposedly comes from &#8220;support service&#8221;.\u00a0 However the sender is clearly not a UVic address. The body of the message looks like this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa01-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa01-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa01-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa01.png 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/>Please do not be curious and do not click on the link.\u00a0 The goal is to steal your UVic credentials (fake Outlook Web App page is shown below). Besides stealing credentials, these pages may contain malware which is why even opening the page is not a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa02-300x285.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa02-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/08\/20200828owa02.png 752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many UVic users received this phish today. It claims that &#8220;Microsoft Verification is required&#8221; and supposedly comes from &#8220;support service&#8221;.\u00a0 However the sender is clearly not a UVic address. The body of the message looks like this: Please do not be curious and do not click on the link.\u00a0 The goal is to steal your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/08\/28\/microsoft-verification-phish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft verification phish<\/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-259","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\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}