{"id":66438,"date":"2012-12-07T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66438"},"modified":"2012-12-07T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:27:57","slug":"mweb-targeted-in-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/66438-mweb-targeted-in-phishing-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"MWEB targeted in phishing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyber criminals are targeting Internet Service Provider MWEB in a phishing attack which uses a \u201cmailbox quota allowance\u201d warning to try to unlawfully get usernames and passwords.<\/p>\n

The message reads \u201cThis message was sent by System security server concerning your mailbox quota allowance on your Webmail account. This recent alert has placed a lock status on your account and needs to be updated by you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Users are encouraged to click on a link named \u201cwww.mweb.co.za\/quota\u201d to \u201cupdate their account quota\u201d. However, the link is actually directing users to a phishing URL.<\/p>\n

The phishing website asks users to enter their email address and password in an online form, and redirects to the MWEB website with the message \u201cPage not found\u201d.<\/p>\n

MWEB confirmed that it is a phishing attack, and users are advised to ignore the message and not click on the link in the email.<\/p>\n

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MWEB phishing website<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cyber criminals are targeting MWEB subscribers in a mailbox quota phishing attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":51281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,213],"class_list":["post-66438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-mweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66444,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66438\/revisions\/66444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}