Security News > 2020 > February > The Amazon Prime phishing attack that wasn’t…

If the email is true, you can simply go to the Amazon site yourself, or use the Amazon app - the online location of Amazon isn't a secret.

We don't know whether the crook who sent us the phishing email made a mistake, and used the wrong URL, or whether a second crook had arrived in the interim and then taken over the hacked server from the original hackers.

Once the crooks start using your website to host malicious content, you are likely to end up getting blocked or filtered by security products and the major browsers.

We don't know how the crooks got access in this case, but a common entry vector to WordPress sites is via plugins that have security holes that you or your hosting provider forgot to patch.

Security products such as the Sophos XG firewall can also guard you from rogue probes and connections from the outside, adding an extra layer of defence against crooks trying to break in.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/02/21/the-amazon-prime-phishing-attack-that-wasnt/