{"id":986,"date":"2022-05-19T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=986"},"modified":"2022-05-19T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:05:45","slug":"payment-confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/05\/19\/payment-confirmation\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email with a subject &#8220;payment confirmation&#8221; is circulating today. To avoid detection the malicious actors made a huge executable file (containing the malicious code) then put that executable file into a .iso file and then zipped that .iso.<br \/>\nThe zip file is about 2Mb in size and attached in the email.<br \/>\nPlease do not open these attachments!\u00a0 If in doubt, first ask your Desktop support person or the Helpdesk.<\/p>\n<p>In the screenshot below it is shown the sender is an external one. As is usual for such campaigns they used many different sender addresses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-987\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/05\/phish-20220519A.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/05\/phish-20220519A.png 547w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/05\/phish-20220519A-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email with a subject &#8220;payment confirmation&#8221; is circulating today. To avoid detection the malicious actors made a huge executable file (containing the malicious code) then put that executable file into a .iso file and then zipped that .iso. The zip file is about 2Mb in size and attached in the email. Please do not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/05\/19\/payment-confirmation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Payment confirmation<\/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-986","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\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}