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James Rodger & Kate Lally

Millions of Gmail and Outlook users hit with 'red alert' warning

Gmail and Microsoft Outlook users have hit with a "red alert" warning over a huge increase in sophisticated email scams.

Cyber defence company BlueVoyant warns of "dynamic phishing", with their report explaining: "One of the more complicated ways threat actors evade detection involves multiple redirect paths, steering consumers to spoofed domains while redirecting presumed threat hunters or phishing analysts to an error page.

"These evasion mechanisms include User Agent or IP restrictions and block-listing, with significant emphasis placed on bot and crawler detection.

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