{"id":707,"date":"2021-08-20T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-08-20T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:43:44","slug":"fake-it-help-desk-cyberattack-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/08\/20\/fake-it-help-desk-cyberattack-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake IT Help-Desk cyberattack case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another scare tactic. Fake IT Help-desk message reporting high-level case\/incident and requesting you to fill out of form to acquire new security software.<\/p>\n

Again the sender email looks suspicious. You may or may not see that depending on the email client you are using.<\/p>\n

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The logon page may raise your suspicion as well. If you accidently click and submit your username and password, it will behave as if it was successfully accepted.<\/p>\n

You’ll also notice this supposed support site is hosted on *moonfruit.com, another commonly exploited and abused service for phishing campaigns.<\/p>\n

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Most major software deployments would typically be coordinated with your assigned IT Support person and commonly there would be some internally shared communication as a precursor to such deployment or notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another scare tactic. Fake IT Help-desk message reporting high-level case\/incident and requesting you to fill out of form to acquire new security software. Again the sender email looks suspicious. You may or may not see that depending on the email client you are using. The logon page may raise your suspicion as well. If you … Continue reading Fake IT Help-Desk cyberattack case<\/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-707","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\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}