{"id":13074,"date":"2018-06-25T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T08:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=13074"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T10:32:13","slug":"phishing-attempt-from-sun-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2018\/06\/phishing-attempt-from-sun-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Phishing attempt from SUN email address[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p>If you receive an email with the subject \u201cMailbox\u201d or \u201cUrgent Alert !!\u201d from a university account, do not respond to it or click on the link. This is not a legitimate email from Information Technology.<\/p>\n<p>We have received reports that a suspicious email is being sent out from a university account informing users that their email has exceeded its storage limit and they have to click on a link to &#8220;avoid blockage or deactivation&#8221;(As shown in example)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2018\/06\/dfbotha2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13077 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2018\/06\/dfbotha2-500x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2018\/06\/dfbotha2-500x187.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2018\/06\/dfbotha2-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2018\/06\/dfbotha2-768x287.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2018\/06\/dfbotha2.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you follow the link and give your information, it will be used by phishing criminals to gain access to your personal information, including your bank details. If you did click on the link of this phishing email, immediately go to the www.sun.ac.za\/useradm website and change the passwords on all your university accounts.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any inquiries, please let us know by logging a request or calling our Service Desk at 808 4367.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] If you receive an email with the subject \u201cMailbox\u201d or \u201cUrgent Alert !!\u201d from a university account, do not respond to it or click on the link. This is not a legitimate email from Information Technology. We have received reports that a suspicious email is being sent out from a university account informing users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20382,20381,29187],"tags":[20381],"class_list":["post-13074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-phishing","category-security-2","tag-phishing"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 00:07:27","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\/13074","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=13074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}