MailGuard has identified 3 similar types of phishing emails making their way into inboxes on late Thursday morning.
The emails are titled as follows:
7 unread emails for <recipient>
Synchronization was unsuccessful
Office 365 Email Security Verification
All three scams use very similar messages. They are all short plain text, advising the recipient that there was a problem with their mailbox.
The emails actually came from multiple compromised email addresses.
To solve this problem, the emails encourage users to click a link to recover or read messages.
Unsuspecting victims who click on the link are led to a copy of the Office 365 Log In Page, that is hosted on multiple compromised websites.
This is actually a phishing page, designed to steal the recipient’s email address and password.
How can you protect yourself from these types of email scams?
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