{"id":395,"date":"2025-03-04T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=395"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:42:08","slug":"two-factor-authentication-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/03\/04\/two-factor-authentication-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Activate 2FA\/Enable Two-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attacker uses legitimate MSU faculty\/staff names<\/li>\n<li>Contains the MSU logo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>QR code link is fraudulent<\/li>\n<li>Email Subject changes:\n<ul>\n<li>[Activate 2FA for Stronger Security]<\/li>\n<li>[Protect Your Account: Activate 2FA Now]<\/li>\n<li>[Safeguard Your Account: Enable 2-Factor Authentication Today]<\/li>\n<li>[Boost Security: Enable Two-Factor Authentication]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spelling errors: No space between QR and code as well as ( 2SV) having a space<\/li>\n<li>Email address is external<\/li>\n<li>Name in signature is not similar to the one in the From alias<\/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: Attacker uses legitimate MSU faculty\/staff names Contains the MSU logo Why this is phishing? QR code link is fraudulent Email Subject changes: [Activate 2FA for Stronger Security] [Protect Your Account: Activate 2FA Now] [Safeguard Your Account: Enable 2-Factor Authentication Today] [Boost Security: Enable Two-Factor Authentication] Spelling errors: No space between QR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spear-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}