{"id":26957,"date":"2022-03-02T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=26957"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:48:37","slug":"malware-warning-for-ufv-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2022\/03\/02\/malware-warning-for-ufv-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware warning for UFV employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail alignleft wp-image-26958\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2022\/02\/popup-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2022\/02\/popup-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2022\/02\/popup-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2022\/02\/popup-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UFV\u2019s cybersecurity team has seen an increase in fake browser update warnings. These popups have appeared in Chrome, but may also appear in other browsers such as Firefox or Edge. Clicking the link in this popup will lead to malware. If you see a request to update your browser, do not click it. UFV employee and student computers are set to update your browsers automatically.<\/p>\n<p>If you have further questions or concerns, please contact the IT Service Desk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/2022\/02\/it-security-notice-malware-warning-to-ufv-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/2022\/02\/it-security-notice-malware-warning-to-ufv-employees\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact ITS Communications at <a href=\"mailto:its.communications@ufv.ca\">its.communications@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff;\">03\/15\/2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFV\u2019s cybersecurity team has seen an increase in fake browser update warnings. These popups have appeared in Chrome, but may also appear in other browsers such as Firefox or Edge. Clicking the link in this popup will lead to malware. If you see a request to update your browser, do not click it. UFV employee &#8230; <a title=\"Malware warning for UFV employees\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2022\/03\/02\/malware-warning-for-ufv-employees\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":26958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957\/revisions\/26974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}