I thought it was bad previously, but in 2026 I’ve noticed a big rise in emails trying to scam me into clicking a link – known as phishing. Phishing describes an email that entices the recipient to open it and maybe click a link, which then installs some malware on the computer. This could be something that logs keystrokes and sends them to another system on the Internet.
You’ve likely have received emails like that, purporting to come from Microsoft or PayPal or some other company you recognize, and urging you to click a link to fix something to do