{"id":6218,"date":"2021-06-01T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6218"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:03:11","slug":"walmart-phishing-attack-seeks-to-steal-users-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/walmart-phishing-attack-seeks-to-steal-users-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Phishing Attack Seeks To Steal Users Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Walmart phishing campaign masquerades as a retailer, trying to steal users&#8217; personal information while checking their emails to verify them for future attacks such as identity theft and spear-phishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email, which has the subject &#8220;Your Package delivery Problem Notification lD #,&#8221; asks users to update the address at the end of the message, which says: &#8220;Unfortunately we were not able to deliver your postal package in time because your address is not correct. Please reply us with the correct shipping address&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After clicking on the &#8216;update address&#8217; button, the phishing email automatically generates a new email with the subject &#8216;Update my Address!&#8217; that will be sent to various emails under the control of the fraudster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users are asked to send their e-mail address to the spammer posing as Walmart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users are advised not to click on suspicious links, but to go to the domain of the main page for confirmation purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/beware-walmart-phishing-attack-says-your-package-was-not-delivered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are making attacks by posing as Walmart and infiltrating emails to seek user information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}