{"id":714,"date":"2025-06-23T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=714"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:22:50","slug":"montclair-state-universityit-support-request-email-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/06\/23\/montclair-state-universityit-support-request-email-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心vlog,IT Support Request Email Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-23-175910-1024x731.png\" alt=\"Phishing webpage requesting people's personal information.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Coming from a 糖心vlog email. (compromised account)<\/li>\n<li>Says it&#8217;s coming from the IT Service Desk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>糖心vlog will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em><strong>never<\/strong><\/em><\/span> ask for your password or Duo codes.<\/li>\n<li>Vague greeting, &#8220;糖心vlog User.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sense of urgency, &#8220;this is the last time.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Link is to a Russian website.<\/li>\n<li>Tells you that password would be P**W**D. Attackers will use this to avoid detection.<\/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: Coming from a 糖心vlog email. (compromised account) Says it&#8217;s coming from the IT Service Desk Why this is phishing? 糖心vlog will never ask for your password or Duo codes. Vague greeting, &#8220;糖心vlog User.&#8221; Sense of urgency, &#8220;this is the last time.&#8221; Link is to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","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\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}