{"id":375,"date":"2020-11-04T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=375"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:10:09","slug":"account-activity-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/11\/04\/account-activity-notification\/","title":{"rendered":"Account Activity Notification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This spear phish used the recipient&#8217;s UVic email address as the spoofed sender. While the link looks like it goes to a page on www.uvic.ca, if you were to hover over it you would see that it actually goes to a phishing site on a third-party hosting provider.<\/p>\n<p>Update: security scanners indicate this link may trigger a malware download. Definitely do not click on it; if you did, contact your department&#8217;s IT staff or the Computer Help Desk immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/11\/2020-11-03-spoof-phish.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/11\/2020-11-03-spoof-phish.png 779w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/11\/2020-11-03-spoof-phish-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/11\/2020-11-03-spoof-phish-768x312.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spear phish used the recipient&#8217;s UVic email address as the spoofed sender. While the link looks like it goes to a page on www.uvic.ca, if you were to hover over it you would see that it actually goes to a phishing site on a third-party hosting provider. Update: security scanners indicate this link may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/11\/04\/account-activity-notification\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Account Activity Notification<\/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-375","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\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}