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by Clo_S 1141 days ago
Phishing happens when fraudsters impersonate a trusted person or organisation to get hold of your information. They have all sorts of very creative techniques, including using fake domain names with Cyrilic characters instead of Latin ones, and even forging deepfake audio of your relatives. In this article, we look at what phishing is, how to recognise it, and what to do if you are victim of a phishing attack.