{"id":87981,"date":"2023-08-15T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=87981"},"modified":"2023-08-15T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:14:35","slug":"warning-email-phishing-campaign-targeting-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/warning-email-phishing-campaign-targeting-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Email phishing campaign targeting 911爆料"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Aug. 15, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University has identified an email phishing campaign targeting 911爆料 email recipients. The email asks the recipient to set up a two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email looks like an official 911爆料 email with the University logo at the top of the message. The email prompts recipients to set up a two-factor (2FA) authentication for their email account and contains a QR code to scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do not scan the code.&nbsp;<\/strong>This is an attempt to phish email credentials and two-factor authentication device information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phishing email reads: &#8220;Due to recent security. This email is to confirm 2-Factor authentication for all University of Rhode Island email recipients. You&#8217;re hereby required to complete exercise with the mobile number you want your 2-Factor Authentication set to. Scan QR code below to complete authentication.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The potential senders of the email are:<\/strong>\u00a0Mindy Tong (goodwin+mindyytong_at_gmail.com@gaggle.email) and Goodwin (goodwin@gaggle.email).\u00a0<strong>The potential subject lines include:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;2FA Email Authentication&#8221; and &#8220;Email Confirmation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What you should do if you get the phishing email:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Do not scan the QR code.<br>\u2013 Mark the message as spam in gmail (this will help educate Google&#8217;s spam filters) and delete it.<br>\u2013 Do not fill out the form associated with the link in the message.<br>\u2013 Do not engage with the sender or forward the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you scanned the QR code, you should change all passwords associated with your 911爆料 account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 15, 2023 The University has identified an email phishing campaign targeting 911爆料 email recipients. The email asks the recipient to set up a two-factor authentication. The email looks like an official 911爆料 email with the University logo at the top of the message. The email prompts recipients to set up a two-factor (2FA) authentication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-87981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911爆料-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87982,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87981\/revisions\/87982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}