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A phishing attack managed to fool Troy Hunt into handing over MailChimp credentials.
  • A jetlagged Troy Hunt accidentally clicked a link and logged into an account only to realise he had been phished.
  • Despite reacting quickly, attackers were able to export a mailing list for Hunt’s personal blog.
  • Hunt has detailed the attack and warned his subscribers in a timely fashion.
  • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    If you look at the headers, you can tell which ones are fake phishing and real phishing.

      • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Most companies add an email header like “X-PHISHTEST” to the phishing tests (and a corresponding spam filter rule) to ensure they don’t get caught by spam filters. If you look at the headers of a spam email, the company test emails will have that header.