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What to do when you click on a suspicious link

Summary: Cisco Talos published a guide for people who click a suspicious link, advising them to contact IT support immediately on a work device and to follow remediation steps on a personal one. The guide notes that malicious links can trigger automatic downloads, exploit browser vulnerabilities, or install malware, and that entering credentials on a phishing site can give attackers account access leading to unauthorized activity, identity theft, or further phishing.

What you should know: Talos also describes an undocumented phishing framework its developer branded "JWR" that impersonates checkout and login pages across major payment and shopping platforms, and notes that in 2025 attackers bypassed MFA through adversary-in-the-middle attacks using reverse proxies and Phishing-as-a-Service tools like Evilproxy.

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