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This simple, straightforward car insurance phishing scam is so basic, it's actually working really well

A fish hook is lying across a computer keyboard, representing a phishing attack on a computer system.

Cybersecurity researchers have recently discovered an incredibly simple phishing campaign that seems to be performing exceptionally well.

In a blog post, experts from Cofense described a newly found phishing campaign in which threat actors impersonate a car insurance company. The body of the emails is short and to the point, and doesn’t distribute anything particularly malicious. In fact, in many cases, it carried a Google Ad link, which is probably why it managed to bypass secure email gateways (SEG) and land in people’s inboxes in the first place.

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