{"id":3597,"date":"2026-09-08T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:58:37","slug":"watch-out-for-suspicious-sharepoint-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/2026\/09\/watch-out-for-suspicious-sharepoint-invitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for suspicious SharePoint invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFV&#8217;s Cybersecurity team is seeing reports of phishing emails that are disguised as SharePoint document-sharing notifications. They come from <em>no-reply@sharepoint.com<\/em>, and invite you to open a shared document. These phishing emails are designed to steal your login credentials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you were not expecting the document, do not click the link, do not open it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><strong>How to spot this scam<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-teams=\"true\">The email comes from<em> no-reply@sharepoint.com<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-teams=\"true\">You do not recognize the document or the sender, or you weren&#8217;t expecting to receive it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-teams=\"true\">The email warns that the link was shared from a SharePoint site outside of UFV<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\"><strong>What should I do?<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you receive one of these messages, and you were not expecting to receive it, do not click the link. Forward the email to <em>phishreport@ufv.ca<\/em> so we can investigate it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFV&#8217;s Cybersecurity team is seeing reports of phishing emails that are disguised as SharePoint document-sharing notifications. They come from no-reply@sharepoint.com, and invite you to open a shared document. These phishing emails are designed to steal your login credentials. If you were not expecting the document, do not click the link, do not open it. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AzwP-W1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/itservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}