Phishing
Attackers usually send an illegitimate email containing false information while masking it to look like a legitimate email from a trusted person or source. This technique is used to trick a user into providing personal information or other sensitive details.
Imagine receiving an email: the sender's name is your bank's name and the body of the email has instructions informing you to click on a provided link to reset your online banking credentials. Email messages are usually presented to us in Rich Text Format, which provides very clean and easy-to-read text. This format hides the HTML code of the actual message and displays plain text instead. Consequently, an attacker can easily mask the URL to send the user to a malicious website. ...
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