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It can be a little disheartening to deal with well-prepared phishing attacks every day, since one can easily see how even users who are fully “security-aware†could fall for some them. The messages don't even have to be too complex to be believable. For example, a message containing seemingly innocuous text and a link that points to legitimate, well-known domain hosting an application that is affected by open redirect vulnerability (I'm looking at you, Google[1], though – to be fair – you're hardly alone[2]) can look quite trustworthy, if no obvious red flags are present.
Read the original article: Phishing asking recipients not to report abuse, (Tue, Jun 22nd)