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2. How to spot 'spear phishing', an insidious cybercrime trend - AOL

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   Cyber criminals are getting savvier, with a trend called "spear phishing". Here’s how to tease out a legit email from a fake. How to spot 'spear phishing', an insidious cybercrime trend

3. Buyer Beware: FBI issues warning on "spear phishing" - AOL

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   Spear phishing differs from. As if it wasn't enough to worry about plain old phishing scams, the FBI today issued a warning about a more malicious type called spear phishing. This type of scheme ...

4. Phishing - Wikipedia

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   A study on spear phishing susceptibility among different age groups found that 43% of youth aged 18–25 years and 58% of older users clicked on simulated phishing links in daily e‑mails over 21 days. Older women had the highest susceptibility, while susceptibility in young users declined during the study, but remained stable among older users.

5. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...

6. Podesta emails - Wikipedia

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   In March 2016, the personal Gmail account of John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff and chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, was compromised in a data breach accomplished via a spear-phishing attack, and some of his emails, many of which were work-related, were hacked.

7. Email spoofing - Wikipedia

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   It is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use, commonly known as email spoofing. The purpose and primary outcome of implementing DMARC is to protect a domain from being used in business email compromise attacks, phishing emails, email scams and other cyber threat activities.