{"id":385,"date":"2025-02-27T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:29:15","slug":"montclair-state-university-notification-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/02\/27\/montclair-state-university-notification-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心vlog Notification Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/02\/Montclair-State-University-Notification-Alert-PP-1024x584.png\" alt=\"PowerPoint attachment from phishing email.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/02\/Montclair-State-University-Notification-Alert-786x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Google Form associated with phishing attack.\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email display name is 糖心vlog<\/li>\n<li>Subject says 糖心vlog<\/li>\n<li>Google Form has the 糖心vlog Logo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is not coming from an official MSU email address<\/li>\n<li>Email has no body text just an attachment with no information<\/li>\n<li>Google PowerPoint gives a link to a Google Form in order to avoid detection<\/li>\n<li>Password is spelt with a zero and an alternative character for the letter R<\/li>\n<li>MSU will never request your personal information including passwords and MFA codes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional Notes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you think you&#8217;ve fallen for a scam? Did you share personal information? Downloaded malicious content? Please contact the IT Service Desk at <a href=\"tel:973-655-7971\">973-655-7971<\/a>\u00a0option 1 or email <a href=\"mailto:itservicedesk@montclair.edu\">itservicedesk@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Please send any malicious emails you have received to <a href=\"mailto:phishfiles@montclair.edu\">phishfiles@montclair.edu<\/a> or by clicking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/security\/pab\/\">Knowbe4 Phish Alert Button (PAB)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Always use the &#8220;hover over&#8221; technique to check web links before clicking! For more security tips please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/security\/security-tips\/\">Security Tips<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why this looks valid: Email display name is 糖心vlog Subject says 糖心vlog Google Form has the 糖心vlog Logo Why this is phishing? Email is not coming from an official MSU email address Email has no body text just an attachment with no information Google PowerPoint gives a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}