{"id":96,"date":"2020-10-05T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/?p=96"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:33:46","slug":"phishing-example-from-10-5-2020-re-helpdesk-email-confirmation-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/the-phish-tank\/96","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Example from 10\/5\/2020: &#8220;Re: Helpdesk Email confirmation needed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tips for Detection<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending email address is not from @pugetsound.edu<\/li>\n<li>The link leads to a suspicious site that is not hosted by Puget Sound<\/li>\n<li>Technology Services will not ask you to click a link to &#8220;confirm mailbox&#8221; or threaten discontinuation of services<\/li>\n<li>Salutation states &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; when the email was sent at around 3pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Original Phishing Message<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-upgrade-mailbox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-upgrade-mailbox.png 947w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-upgrade-mailbox-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-upgrade-mailbox-768x333.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Where Did The Link Lead?<\/h2>\n<p>The link led to a website that harvests credentials. If you were to enter your information, your credentials would have been sent to the attacker and your account compromised.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-outlook-fake-sign-in.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-outlook-fake-sign-in.png 620w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/files\/2020\/10\/10-5-20-outlook-fake-sign-in-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Text of Phishing Message<\/h2>\n<p>From: Joanne Brown &lt;joanne.brown[@]wcdhb[.]health[.]nz&gt;<br \/>\nSubject: RE: Helpdesk Email confirmation needed<\/p>\n<p>Good Morning,<\/p>\n<p>Your email removal from our mailing server has been approved.<\/p>\n<p>Access to your email will be denied permanently after next logout, kindly confirm and upgrade your mailbox to avoid losing your email access.<\/p>\n<p>Confirm mailbox now<\/p>\n<p>Note: Access to your email will be restricted after next logout if you fail to confirm and upgrade your mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<br \/>\nIT Support Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for Detection Sending email address is not from @pugetsound.edu The link leads to a suspicious site that is not hosted by Puget Sound Technology Services will not ask you to click a link to &#8220;confirm mailbox&#8221; or threaten discontinuation of services Salutation states &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; when the email was sent at around 3pm Original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-96","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\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}