{"id":51,"date":"2020-09-16T21:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:50:17","slug":"phishing-example-from-9-3-20-reminder-for-revised-employee-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/the-phish-tank\/51","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Example from 9\/3\/20: &#8220;Reminder for Revised Employee Handbook&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tips for Detection:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A change in policy would be sent via official campus communications<\/li>\n<li>The link is questionable and the sender&#8217;s email address is external &#8211; @ntlworld.com<\/li>\n<li>The wording of &#8220;effective today&#8221; versus &#8220;reminder&#8221; seems conflicting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Original Phishing Message:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/09\/9-3-20-handbook-phish-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/09\/9-3-20-handbook-phish-1.png 995w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/09\/9-3-20-handbook-phish-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/09\/9-3-20-handbook-phish-1-768x421.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Text of Phishing Message:<\/h3>\n<p>Effective today Thursday, September 3, 2020 we have a new Employee Handbook. The handbook is available for review below. Please review the changes and sign your acknowledgment of the handbook in section 2 immediately upon receipt of this notification.<\/p>\n<p>[link removed]<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, approximately 20% of our employees have acknolwedged the handbook and we are looking to get to 100% before or by Friday! We are all required to review and sign an acknowledgment of the handbook upon receipt of this email.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Human Resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for Detection: A change in policy would be sent via official campus communications The link is questionable and the sender&#8217;s email address is external &#8211; @ntlworld.com The wording of &#8220;effective today&#8221; versus &#8220;reminder&#8221; seems conflicting Original Phishing Message: Text of Phishing Message: Effective today Thursday, September 3, 2020 we have a new Employee Handbook. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-phish-tank","tag-phishing","tag-phishtank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}