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Hackers want you to be happy. People in a good mood are easier to trick, research says

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Hackers want you to be happy. People in a good mood are easier to trick, research says

Researchers at the University of Florida and Google studied the psychology around phishing emails and how hackers take advantage of human nature to tempt people into clicking on malicious links.

Oliveira was joined by Elie Burszstein, who leads Google's anti-abuse research team.

Phishing attacks are an online scourge in which hackers pose as legitimate institutions in the hopes of getting personal information, such as passwords.

As Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels said at the Amazon Web Services Summit, "there's always that idiot that will click the link."

Over the course of the three-week experiment, 158 participants, who were told they were participating in research about how people use the internet, would get a phishing email once a day.

Researchers would track whether they clicked it.

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