{"id":37000,"date":"2023-10-20T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/be-on-the-lookout-for-scam-cvs-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:47:29","slug":"be-on-the-lookout-for-scam-cvs-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/be-on-the-lookout-for-scam-cvs-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Be on the lookout for scam CVs &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"54\" height=\"66\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/circuitx66.jpg\" alt=\"Tech Tricks\" title=\"tech tricks\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16507\" alt=\"tech tricks\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/circuitx66.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" width=\"54\" height=\"66\" \/>Some hackers are now attempting to trick business owners into downloading vicious material by disguising emails as CVs, according to security firm Sophos, and business owners must be on alert.<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-304\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watching out for vicious emails is becoming more and more crucial as hackers attack businesses several times a day. Check every email you receive \u2013 if you don\u2019t recognise the sender, or don\u2019t recognise an attachment, be extremely wary.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Sophos says some hackers are sending messages that, on first glance, appear to be an email from someone trying to correct mistakes on a CV.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the chat yesterday, it really helped me get a clearer idea of recruitment as well as exploring any potential opportunity,\u201d the emails state. <em>\u201c<\/em>CV with the correct email on this link.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sophos explains that \u201cit is obvious that somebody was trying to trick people into downloading executable files disguised as CV documents\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some hackers are now attempting to trick business owners into downloading vicious material by disguising emails as CVs, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}