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Skype attack threatens 300 million users: How to protect yourself
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Quote: New phishing campaign targets Skype users working from home
A new phishing campaign aimed at Skype users is especially convincing -- it already knows your name and where you work.
The attack arrives in the form of an email alerting you that you have several Skype notifications and need to click a "review" button. Click on that button, say researchers at Cofense, and you're taken to a phony Skype login page.
The fake Skype page has the ".app" web-address suffix and is secured with HTTPS to lend it a bit of false legitimacy. (The .app top-level domain is managed by Google and used by software developers.)
The crooks are pretty slick.
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https://www.tomsguide.com/news/skype-phishing-attack
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