{"id":270,"date":"2020-09-02T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-09-02T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:28:58","slug":"phish-from-a-compromised-vendor-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/09\/02\/phish-from-a-compromised-vendor-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Phish from a compromised vendor email address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An employee of a local vendor had their email address compromised and used to send phishing emails. Notice the part that looks like a file attachment&#8211;it actually is a link to a malicious file on OneDrive.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive emails that appear to come from someone you know but don&#8217;t quite look right, don&#8217;t reply and don&#8217;t click on the links. Instead, contact them via a phone number that you already have and know is safe. Also inform your department&#8217;s IT support staff and report the phish to the Information Security Office so that we can follow up as necessary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-271 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/09\/2020-09-02_vendor-compromise_redacted.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/09\/2020-09-02_vendor-compromise_redacted.png 772w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/09\/2020-09-02_vendor-compromise_redacted-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/09\/2020-09-02_vendor-compromise_redacted-768x578.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employee of a local vendor had their email address compromised and used to send phishing emails. Notice the part that looks like a file attachment&#8211;it actually is a link to a malicious file on OneDrive. If you receive emails that appear to come from someone you know but don&#8217;t quite look right, don&#8217;t reply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/09\/02\/phish-from-a-compromised-vendor-email-address\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phish from a compromised vendor email address<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","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\/270","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\/8719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}