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Phishing is a cyberattack in which the target is contacted by a threat actor impersonating a trusted individual or entity. There are several types of these ...

This strongly suggests that the phishing email did not come from whoever the original owner of that email account is or was, but from a threat actor who obtained access to it after one of those 18 breaches. If you were to enter your email and password there, the threat actor would steal your information and use it to log in to your account. To a tech-savvy person, this email probably screams "phishing", but it's easy to imagine someone older, who is not that great with technology, clicking the link. For a start, the threat actor is repeatedly creating a sense of urgency in order to convince the target to click the link. However, Virus Total did: two security vendors, Avira and Webroot, flagged the link as malicious and described it as a phishing scam. We can only speculate as to how the cybercriminal might have gained access to this email, if that is indeed what happened. In this phishing scam, the threat actor contacts a victim, claiming to represent the Yahoo Service Team. It redirects the victim to a page closely resembling the standard Yahoo Mail sign-in site. The color scheme is the same, the font very similar, and Protect by Yahoo is an actual service Yahoo offers to its customers. To really understand what the scammer is trying to accomplish here, let's break down the email and parse the language. In a typical email phishing attempt, you receive a message from what appears to be a legitimate entity urging you to take action; for example, to change your password or sign into an account. There are several types of these attacks, but email phishing is by far the most common one.