Skype attack threatens 300 million users: How to protect yourself

[sidemoon]

 New phishing campaign targets Skype users working from home

A new phishing campaign aimed at Skype users is especially convincing -- it already knows your name and where you work.

The attack arrives in the form of an email alerting you that you have several Skype notifications and need to click a "review" button. Click on that button, say researchers at Cofense, and you're taken to a phony Skype login page. 

The fake Skype page has the ".app" web-address suffix and is secured with HTTPS to lend it a bit of false legitimacy. (The .app top-level domain is managed by Google and used by software developers.)

The crooks are pretty slick. 

Continue readinh here:
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/skype-phishing-attack