What is phishing? Everything you need to know to protect against scam emails – and worse
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Image credit: Getty / Brothers91. Article by Danny Palmer.
Find all you need to know about phishing in this guide, including how to protect yourself from one of the most common – and most effective – forms of cyberattack.
What is phishing?
Often carried out over email — although the scam has now spread beyond suspicious emails to phone calls (so-called ‘vishing’), social media, SMS messaging services (aka ‘smishing’), and apps — a basic phishing attack attempts to trick the target into doing what the scammer wants. […]
