A rather new phishing technique seems to be preferred by some hackers nowadays – the deceitful PDF attachments that attempt to steal your email credentials. In one Microsoft blog, the folks over at the malware prevention team point out that the heightened phishing activity that takes place during the holiday season did not go down this winter.
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