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12th April 2018 - Link Blog

The Academic Vanity Honeypot phishing scheme. Twitter thread describing a nasty phishing attack where an academic receives an email from a respected peer congratulating them on a recent article and suggesting further reading. The further reading link is a phishing site that emulates the victim’s institution’s login page.

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 12th April 2018.

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