{"id":18656,"date":"2024-10-28T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:55:46","slug":"avoiding-phishing-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/2024\/10\/28\/avoiding-phishing-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"[INFOSEC ADVISORY]: AVOIDING CURRENT PHISHING ATTEMPTS"},"content":{"rendered":"
This afternoon mass phishing emails (see below) were sent out to Faculty, Staff, and Students from a compromised account. If you went to the link within the email and entered your information, please remain vigilant, as the attacker will likely attempt to contact you.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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If at any point you were asked to enter your MU password,\u00a0please change it immediately by going to\u00a0Self-Service Password Reset – (marshall.edu)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b>Also, remember to NEVER give away your Multi Factor Authentication code!<\/b><\/div>\n
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Email Scams Demand Heightened Vigilance:<\/b><\/div>\n
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  1. Job scams frequently ensnare victims under the guise of harmless interactions, but their ulterior motive often revolves around procuring banking information. Remain alert to these deceptive approaches, particularly those urging you to procure gift cards.<\/li>\n
  2. Invoice scams present themselves from diverse senders. The objective is to deceive recipients into believing an urgent invoice necessitates immediate payment.<\/li>\n
  3. Credential theft scams deploy strategies aimed at persuading individuals to surrender their login credentials willingly. Watch for urgent notifications implying account termination or mailbox capacity issues, tactics commonly utilized by these schemes. Beware that the sign-in pages used often are Google Forms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This afternoon mass phishing emails (see below) were sent out to Faculty, Staff, and Students from a compromised account. If you went to the link within the email and entered your information, please remain vigilant, as the attacker will likely attempt to contact you.\u00a0 If at any point you were asked to enter your MU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,32],"tags":[52,65,75,54,111,51],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infosecalerts","category-infosecnews","category-mainnews","category-security","tag-cyberaware","tag-email","tag-infosec","tag-it","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18658,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}