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Cybercriminals are sending emails claiming students must verify their school portal accounts to access new features or avoid losing academic information. These messages are designed to steal login credentials and compromise accounts.<\/p>\n
Mentions Montclair systems like student portals and assessments<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Creates urgency by threatening account issues or loss of academic work<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Includes real Montclair IT contact or location information<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Appears to come from a real university email account (in this case, a compromised account)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Contains poor grammar, awkward wording, and unusual capitalization<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Requests account verification through an unexpected email link<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Includes a link that leads to a fake login or credential harvesting form<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Uses pressure tactics to make users act quickly without verifying legitimacy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Entering credentials into the malicious form may allow attackers to:<\/p>\n
Access to Montclair email and systems<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Send phishing emails from the compromised account<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Steal academic, personal, or financial information<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Spread malware or additional scams across campus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Do not click links in unexpected account verification emails<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Access Montclair systems only through official websites or bookmarks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Carefully check sender email addresses<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Report suspicious messages using the Knowbe4 Phish Alert Button (PAB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Cybercriminals are sending emails claiming students must verify their school portal accounts to access new features or avoid losing academic information. These messages are designed to steal login credentials and compromise accounts. Why This Email May Look Legitimate Mentions Montclair systems like student portals and assessments Creates urgency by threatening account issues or loss of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Additional Notes:<\/h2>\n
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