A secondhand account of the worst possible timing for a scammer to strike

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.

Up until last week, I had never considered the timing of a scam to be important. I’m so used to just swiping away emails or text messages at random times during the day that I’d never considered what would happen if an adversary happened to get me at just the right time.

That’s what happened to my wife last week.

We were on vacation, and I was away for a …

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