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Can my phone got infected if visit my mail inbox without opening any mail attachments?
I've found some articles saying some viruses/malware can attack your device by just opening an email without downloading or opening any attachments.
Is this true?
If yes, how risky for ordinary mail ...
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I am trying to identify suspicious content within a PDF file
I have a PDF file that has been sent to me as part of a suspicious email. I viewed the email as message source from within outlook. This gave me all raw text within the email. I copied this to ...
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Does email provider scan mails for viruses?
Imagine I am on [email protected] and I send a mail to [email protected] with an eicar.txt as an attachement. Will the email be stopped because it contains the eicar.txt ?
In case there is an email ...
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Sextorsion then Trojan
I received an email containing blackmail about videos that the hacker said he recorded. He said that he recorded the user of the laptop masturbating and he is asking for money to delete them otherwise ...
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Is it safe to open email links in a private window?
Sometimes there are links on the email you have to click because they are agrements, but they are coming from a different URL. As of now what I'm doing is opening a private window and pasting the link ...
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How to determine if a PC is safe after receiving a suspicious email message
I was checking my gmail account spam folder and I noticed an email sent by a known sender.
I thought it was flagged as spam by mistake so I opened it. Then I realized the content is the same as ...
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Can just clicking on a malicious link lead to hacking of my device? [duplicate]
I was not sure about it and I got some answers from internet but didn't get the logical reasoning behind it.
If I just click on a malicious link it might open a new tab, or it might download something....
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Checking system integrity after clicking scam email link on Linux
Earlier today, my mother opened an email thinking it was from my sister-inlaw, then clicked on the shortened link.
The link loaded a page of fairly nonsensical text. The source of the page had no ...
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sendgrid delivered malware - what's the abuse reporting procedure [closed]
Sendgrid delivered me malware* - where should I report that?
There was no contact info in the headers and the only abuse contact I could find in whois was domain registrar Godaddy.
Last time I dealt ...
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Is a safelinks.protection.outlook.com link phishing?
Received an email which contain the below hyperlink
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http*3A*2F*2Factuallysale.com*2F&data=02*7C01*7C*7C548d20ace3ec4747fe1008d7d7d8b597*...
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My email address is being used to enroll for online services. Should I be concerned?
Just before Christmas I received the following message in one of my GMail accounts:
Sign-in attempt was blocked
********@gmail.com [redacted by me]
Someone just used your password to try to ...
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Mindlessly clicked days old phishing email link appeared dead
Was multitasking and mindlessly clicked Squarespace phishing email. Page didn't load, and right away I realized my mistake. Completed several malware scans which came back clean. The button link ...
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How this tracking (and more) was done using an image in an email?
As reported in the NY Times, there was some type of electronic spying in a high-profile military trial. Its claimed that the prosecutors were spying on the defense:
The court-martial ... has been ...
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ML approach to malicious attachments using email contents
Based on my understanding of the field, it seems like there is a lot of attention paid to spam filtering based on the contents and metadata of an email, and there is considerable attention paid to ...
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Is it ever safe to open a suspicious HTML file (e.g. email attachment)?
If I receive an email that has an attachment called something like safe-link.html would it ever be safe to open this file?
Clearly, HTML files may have malicious scripts embedded that could run when ...
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