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Phishing in the Time of COVID-19: How to Recognize Malicious Coronavirus Phishing Scams

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare Itphishing,Is it an enticing offer? Is there a sense of urgency? Have you interacted with the sender before over this platform?In the above email, note that the domain sending this “Gates Foundation” email includes a subtle typo. Phishing emails such as this one expect readers to only see the display name, without the email address beside it. Be vigilant to see the email address that the message is originating from.&nbsp;malwaretrojansransomware:https; https:I am travelling to a country where there has been an...

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Daly Barnett is a staff technologist at the EFF. She is also an artist, activist, and community organizer. Before arriving to EFF, she was the founder of t4tech, a trans forward tech collective based in NYC. She is also a part of Hacking Hustling, a sex workers advocacy organization, where her title is Witch.

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