{"id":242,"date":"2016-07-15T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:13:12","slug":"review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/review\/","title":{"rendered":"Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/07\/July2016AdobePDF.jpg\" alt=\"July2016AdobePDF\" width=\"600\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/07\/July2016AdobePDF.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/07\/July2016AdobePDF-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>What is this?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a screenshot of what appeared in a recent phishing email as if it was a locally attached PDF.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email, not shown, asks the recipient to open a very important document.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email &#8211; not shown &#8211; is from an actual Vassar user.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vassar constituents often share documents that are hosted on sharing platforms such as Dropbox and Google.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This form looks very similar to Adobe&#8217;s own login page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vassar College does not provide online PDF storage via Adobe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an extremely dangerous Phishing attempt. If you clicked on this link and may have completed the form, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A phone call to the alleged sender would quickly verify if this is a legitimate email. It only takes a few minutes to pick up the phone!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report it as phishing to Google. Before deleting the message, make sure to click on \u201creport phishing&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little paranoia goes a long way! Be suspicious of any email messages similar to this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}