{"id":427,"date":"2025-03-18T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=427"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:55","slug":"overdue-fee-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/03\/18\/overdue-fee-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"$3.45 FAILED &#8211; OVERDUE FEE ALERT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/03\/MSU-Page-828x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the malicious page utilized in overdue fee phish attack.\" width=\"596\" height=\"737\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/03\/Microft-page-1024x829.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the malicious page utilized in overdue fee phish attack.\" width=\"592\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is coming from an internal email address<\/li>\n<li>Student Communications and MSU logo utilized<\/li>\n<li>Email says Red Hawk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email address is a personal account not associated with Red Hawk Central or Student Communications<\/li>\n<li>Email says Red Hawk Center and not Red Hawk Central<\/li>\n<li>Link is malicious and points to webpages asking for personal information<\/li>\n<li>Greeting is generic, &#8220;Dear Montclair.edu&#8221;<\/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 is coming from an internal email address Student Communications and MSU logo utilized Email says Red Hawk Why this is phishing? Email address is a personal account not associated with Red Hawk Central or Student Communications Email says Red Hawk Center and not Red Hawk Central Link is malicious and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","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\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}