{"id":569,"date":"2021-03-19T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:08:52","slug":"confirm-your-password-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/03\/19\/confirm-your-password-phish\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Confirm your password&#8221; phish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s phish pretends your password was going to expire today.<br \/>\nNote that we don&#8217;t have a policy to expire passwords.<\/p>\n<p>The phish message asks you click the button in order to keep you password. As usual that leads to an external i.e. non-UVic webpage which contains the UVic logo. There, the final goal as always is to steal your UVic credentials. Below is a screenshot of that phish. The &#8220;button&#8221; is very light, almost invisible. (We added the red arrow pointing to it)<\/p>\n<p>If you receive an email like that, please do not be curious and do not click on the link. Such pages might be loaded with malware so that even if you don\u2019t enter any credentials you are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-576\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/kwfhowrfnakefgyw343724.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/kwfhowrfnakefgyw343724.png 841w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/kwfhowrfnakefgyw343724-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/kwfhowrfnakefgyw343724-768x565.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s phish pretends your password was going to expire today. Note that we don&#8217;t have a policy to expire passwords. The phish message asks you click the button in order to keep you password. As usual that leads to an external i.e. non-UVic webpage which contains the UVic logo. There, the final goal as always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/03\/19\/confirm-your-password-phish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Confirm your password&#8221; 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-569","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\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}