{"id":11997,"date":"2017-04-18T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=11997"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:14:59","slug":"compromised-student-account-used-for-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2017\/04\/compromised-student-account-used-for-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Compromised student account used for phishing[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p>Just because mail seems to come from a university address, doesn\u2019t mean to say that it is legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The latest phishing scam making its rounds at the university is being sent from a compromised student account. The subject line is all in capital letters and is meant to frighten you into clicking on a link and filling in your details. This is probably how the student account that is now sending it was originally compromised.<\/p>\n<p>This is a typical phishing scam. Do not respond or click on any of the links. Many thanks to all the observant students who picked it up and pointed it out to us.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an example of the mail (with the dangerous bits removed)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:noreply@sun.ac.za\">Compromised, Student account &lt;12345678@sun.ac.za&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n <strong>Sent: <\/strong>Monday, 17 April 2017 12:19 PM<br \/>\n <strong>To: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:noreply@sun.ac.za\">fake@email.address<\/a><br \/>\n <strong>Subject: <\/strong>YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN COMPROMISED<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Certify Your email\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/en\/2016\/10\/how-to-recognise-a-phishing-e-mail\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[ARTICLE BY DAVID WILES]<\/p>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] Just because mail seems to come from a university address, doesn\u2019t mean to say that it is legitimate. The latest phishing scam making its rounds at the university is being sent from a compromised student account. The subject line is all in capital letters and is meant to frighten you into clicking on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29187],"tags":[20381,3636,20360],"class_list":["post-11997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2","tag-phishing","tag-security","tag-spam"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 02:18:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11999,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions\/11999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}