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Think Twice Before Opening That PDF. It Could Be a Popular Scam | Beware the TOAD (Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery).
Scammers are making PDFs convincing enough to make a computer college class professor proud. Don't fall for them...
Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Center released a report on July 2 documenting the rise of scammers using PDFs to impersonate legitimate websites quite clearly and competently. “In some cases, the entire email, including a brand’s logo, is embedded within a PDF attachment,” said Talos in their report. The scammers did a lot of things right with this impersonation – Credit: cisco talos intelligence groupWe’ve all gotten these “receipts.” What they seek to do is get you to panic a bit.
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