{"id":40,"date":"2022-10-14T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/?p=40"},"modified":"2022-10-14T20:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:10:19","slug":"link-in-phishing-email-leads-to-techrepublic-redirector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Link in Phishing Email Leads to TechRepublic Redirector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found a phishing email containing a link to techrepublic.com, which ends up redirecting to a .ar (Argentina TLD) URL, which ends up redirecting to a .ru (Russia TLD) phishing page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishbody.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishbody.png 964w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishbody-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishbody-768x466.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><figcaption>Here is a screenshot of the original email.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"98\" src=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlink-1024x98.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlink-1024x98.png 1024w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlink-300x29.png 300w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlink-768x73.png 768w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlink.png 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Here is a screenshot of the link with portions blurred out so it shouldn&#8217;t be usable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlandingpage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlandingpage.png 878w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlandingpage-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/freshphish.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/techrepublicphishlandingpage-768x365.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><figcaption>This is the final landing page for this phish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve contacted TechRepublic and sent the link to them. Hopefully they&#8217;ll be able to plug this hole quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a phishing email containing a link to techrepublic.com, which ends up redirecting to a .ar (Argentina TLD) URL,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freshphish.info\/?p=40\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Link in Phishing Email Leads to TechRepublic Redirector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[17,4,18,16],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phish","tag-argentina","tag-phish","tag-russia","tag-techrepublic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I found a phishing email containing a link to techrepublic.com, which ends up redirecting to a .ar (Argentina TLD) URL, which ends up redirecting to a .ru (Russia TLD) phishing page. 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