{"id":860,"date":"2025-09-10T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=860"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:21:58","slug":"action-required-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/09\/10\/action-required-now\/","title":{"rendered":"ÌÇÐÄvlog Notice \u2013 September 10, 2025: Action Required Now!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/09\/9-10-25-phish-google-form-463x1024.png\" alt=\"Phishing Google Form attempting to harvest login credentials.\" width=\"463\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email subject says ÌÇÐÄvlog.<\/li>\n<li>Email body has Microsoft with a copyright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NEVER<\/strong> fill out a Google Form with your passwords or Duo codes.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t share your passwords, duo codes or personal information with anyone. IT will never ask you for your login credentials.<\/li>\n<li>Link is a Google Form not a place to log into. If you&#8217;re ever unsure of a link go directly to the source website and login there.<\/li>\n<li>Email asks for a passphrase meaning your password.<\/li>\n<li>Email is not coming from Information Technology or from Microsoft directly.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/iams-amc.montclair.edu\/page-password-reset-initial\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/iams-amc.montclair.edu\/page-password-reset-initial\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to access the NetID Account Management Center to reset your password.<\/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>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/security\/pab\/\">Knowbe4 Phish Alert Button (PAB)<\/a> to report malicious emails directly to the Information Security team for review. If you are not using the Gmail client please forward the email to <a href=\"mailto:phishfiles@montclair.edu\">phishfiles@montclair.edu<\/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 subject says ÌÇÐÄvlog. Email body has Microsoft with a copyright. Why this is phishing? NEVER fill out a Google Form with your passwords or Duo codes. Don&#8217;t share your passwords, duo codes or personal information with anyone. IT will never ask you for your login credentials. Link is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","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\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}