{"id":674,"date":"2022-06-03T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=674"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:46:50","slug":"bank-transfer-with-encrypted-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/bank-transfer-with-encrypted-attachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Transfer with encrypted attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-675\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2022\/06\/smartlegal-malware.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2022\/06\/smartlegal-malware.png 563w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2022\/06\/smartlegal-malware-290x208.png 290w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2022\/06\/smartlegal-malware-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email appears to be from from Vassar College<\/li>\n<li>The email presents itself as a zipped excel document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The from address is not from Vassar.edu<\/li>\n<li>The attachment is encrypted with the password in the text of the email<\/li>\n<li>Vassar college will NEVER send bank transfer requests without director supervision to your inbox.<\/li>\n<li>The Encrypted document is malicious and can be used to infect your computer.<\/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 filled in your credentials, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or <a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@vassar.edu\">servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/a><\/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<li>Did you know: the best way to protect your accounts is by using multi-factor authentication. See our post here: <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/06\/29\/best-practice-enabling-multi-factor-authentication-with-duo\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/06\/29\/best-practice-enabling-multi-factor-authentication-with-duo\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why this looks valid The email appears to be from from Vassar College The email presents itself as a zipped excel document Why this is phishing The from address is not from Vassar.edu The attachment is encrypted with the password in the text of the email Vassar college will NEVER send bank transfer requests without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/bank-transfer-with-encrypted-attachment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bank Transfer with encrypted attachment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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\/10073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}