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Highly Effective Phishing Technique Being Exploited

Wordfence points out a new phishing technique involving an unusually formatted URL. This technique has been used to target Gmail users, as well as users of some other popular services. It has been partially mitigated in Chrome.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-uri/

Author Adam ArrowoodPosted on March 15, 2017March 15, 2017Categories Education

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