The number of phishing attacks is on the rise, more than doubling in recent months, with one in 61 emails delivered to corporate inboxes found to contain a malicious URL. …

The emails are often designed to look like they come from legitimate senders – like a company, or a colleague – in order to gain the trust of the victim, before duping them into clicking the malicious link. …The purpose of the malicious URL could be to deploy malware onto the PC or it could encourage the victim to enter sensitive information into a fake version of a real service…

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