SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
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#3Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
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#4Interesting that politics is a vector for contagion.
When you think about politics is very contagious, politicians infect activists, who infect regular folk that advocate for stuff they don't benefit from, when elections come near, it's flu season.
Double parasite burgers where a new parasite leeches of an existing vector are common in biology as well. Like malaria and mosquitoes.
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#5Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
Yeah I noticed the same thing with other providers. Especially with ones that provide free trials.
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#6I have been receiving 2-3 of these variations per day. Have been reporting them as phishing in our GSuite account, but they just keep coming.
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#7Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
Also they are using variants of the same scam to target a variety of groups
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#8Interesting that politics is a vector for contagion. When you think about politics is very contagious, politicians infect activists, who infect regular folk that advocate for stuff they don't benefit from, when elections come near, it's flu season. Double parasite burgers where a new parasite leeches of an existing vector are common in biology as well. Like malaria and mosquitoes.
Philosophically fun, sure, but the article also points out that another vector was "Your language settings have been changed to Spanish", so I don't know if it's as profound as you're making it out to be. Anything that makes us panic can be a vector.
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#9That’s some devious shit. I can just imagine someone furiously clicking the button in a rage
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#10Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
I think HN should embrace AI to the point of having an alternative AI-generated title next to the original title, to reduce clickbait and reduce the global rage index.