{"id":1813,"date":"2022-08-22T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:57:04","slug":"1813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/1813\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Warning Phish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest phishing email looks to be coming from an LUC email address that appears to be compromised.\u00a0 Notice the misspelling of the work administrator and the poor grammar in the second sentence.\u00a0 These phishing emails tend to occur more frequently at the beginning of a semester and are more likely to target new students and faculty.\u00a0 Be aware of &#8220;MFA Fatigue&#8221;.\u00a0 This happens when someone falls for a phish and provides their password.\u00a0 The attacker will then continually attempt to log into the account causing the victim to get repeated push notifications.\u00a0 The victim gets tired of all of the notifications and finally clicks &#8220;Accept&#8221;.\u00a0 The University Information Security Office recommends that if you receive a push notification that you do not expect, to ignore the notice.\u00a0 They should eventually stop as hackers tend to look for low hanging fruit and will move on if they don&#8217;t get a response quickly.\u00a0 Although convenient, the best way to prevent this is to not use push notifications and change your MFA preferences to &#8220;Authenticator App or Hardware Token Code&#8221;.\u00a0 When using this method, you will need to open your authenticator app and use the 6 digit code provided by the app.\u00a0 For instructions on configuring MFA preferences, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luc.edu\/its\/services\/mfa\/\">Multi-Factor Authentication: Information Technology Services: Loyola University Chicago (luc.edu)<\/a>\u00a0 from any browser.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From:<\/strong> REDACTED<br \/>\n<strong>Sent:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, August 20, 2022 12:21 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Subject:<\/strong>\u00a0Urgent Warning<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our record indicates that you recently made a request to terminate your Office 365 email.\u00a0 And this process has begun by our administrat\u00a0made accidentally and you have no knowledge of it, you are advised to verify your Account<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/officeluc365.weebly.com\/\">Cancel the Request<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regards<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Office365 Security Dept<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest phishing email looks to be coming from an LUC email address that appears to be compromised.\u00a0 Notice the misspelling of the work administrator and the poor grammar in the second sentence.\u00a0 These phishing emails tend to occur more frequently at the beginning of a semester and are more likely to target new students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page","category-phishing","category-published","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}