{"id":54,"date":"2024-12-21T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:44:49","slug":"action-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2024\/12\/21\/action-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attacker spoofed the legitimate IT Service Desk email address<\/li>\n<li>Contains the MSU logo<\/li>\n<li>Link at the bottom of the email legitimately points to the MSU website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The email is in a style that the IT Service Desk does not send emails in<\/li>\n<li>Email Subject has odd spacing to avoid blocks already created<\/li>\n<li>Link that is attached to the button leads to a fake login page that is not our SSO<\/li>\n<li>Emails like this would come from an All Users list<\/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 spoofed the legitimate IT Service Desk email address Contains the MSU logo Link at the bottom of the email legitimately points to the MSU website Why this is phishing? The email is in a style that the IT Service Desk does not send emails in Email Subject has odd spacing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","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\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}