{"id":611,"date":"2021-05-07T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=611"},"modified":"2021-05-07T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:49:16","slug":"fake-microsoft-verification-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/05\/07\/fake-microsoft-verification-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Microsoft Verification Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pause when you feel sense of urgency and when it doubt, simply contact the Computer Help Desk. We \/Microsoft do not have extreme\/urgent account disconnection notices or implementations or deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Microsoft does not host their services on WordPress or Weebly. These and other free web hosting services are commonly abused\/compromised for such phishing campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-612\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressbody.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressbody.jpg 605w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressbody-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Verify Now button will lead to a Fake Microsoft My Activation page hosted on a compromised WordPress site.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-615\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1232\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressland.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressland-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressland-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/wordpressland-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1232px) 100vw, 1232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Click Here button will land you on Fake Microsoft Logon page hosted on a compromised or malicious Weebly site.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-613\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/microsoft365weebly.jpg\" alt=\"Fake Microsoft 365\" width=\"1064\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/microsoft365weebly.jpg 1064w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/microsoft365weebly-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/microsoft365weebly-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/05\/microsoft365weebly-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1064px) 100vw, 1064px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do not use buttons provided in a suspect page (eg. Close and accept button above). If you&#8217;d proceeded this far, simply close the whole browser instead and inform your IT Support contact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pause when you feel sense of urgency and when it doubt, simply contact the Computer Help Desk. We \/Microsoft do not have extreme\/urgent account disconnection notices or implementations or deadlines. NOTE: Microsoft does not host their services on WordPress or Weebly. These and other free web hosting services are commonly abused\/compromised for such phishing campaigns. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/05\/07\/fake-microsoft-verification-email\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Microsoft Verification Email<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":968,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","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\/611","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\/968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}