BRITS are being warned to watch out – because the dodgy email attachments that used to drain your bank account have just been outdone by an even sneakier scam that’s much harder to catch.

Cyber experts have revealed that online crooks now prefer planting malicious links over using infected attachments - and the results are far worse.

According to a new bombshell report by Proofpoint, the hidden traps are tucked inside emails, buttons, and even PDFs or Word docs, and one wrong click could see your logins stolen or malware silently installed.

Over 3 billion attacks with dodgy URLs have been sent out and the main goal is to steal passwords.

This hacking scheme isn't just being used by criminal masterminds either.

The tool are so easy to get hold of that even low-level scammers can launch

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