A Youtube Phishing Attack You Need to Watch Out For
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I've recently been getting some emails that lookconvincingly like messages from YouTube,asking me to confirm my account.Look! It says it's from YouTubeand the text reads like something from a YouTube emailand the link to click on to confirm my accountis a link on YouTube's website.Except it's not.The text of the link, certainly is a youtube.com address.Though, it doesn't go anywherebut the website the link goes to when you click on itis definitely, not YouTube.Now, most people know that you can put a link to anyaddress on any text you want.but this phishing attack is maliciously taking advantageof the fact that, typically when you paste a link into anemail, it automatically just links to that link.So, we've all habituated to...
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I've recently been getting some emails that lookconvincingly like messages from YouTube,asking me to confirm my account.Look! It says it's from YouTubeand the text reads like something from a YouTube emailand the link to click on to confirm my accountis a link on YouTube's website.Except it's not.The text of the link, certainly is a youtube.com address.Though, it doesn't go anywherebut the website the link goes to when you click on itis definitely, not YouTube.Now, most people know that you can put a link to anyaddress on any text you want.but this phishing attack is maliciously taking advantageof the fact that, typically when you paste a link into anemail, it automatically just links to that link.So, we've all habituated to...
