Maybe because the tracking pixel remote image loaded? I remember reading an article where people sent an email to Apple and it got passed around within Apple and iirc either Steve Jobs or someone who reports directly to Steve Jobs opened the email not knowing that they were sending out a makeshift read receipt every time they opened the email.
"Curious" might get you to opening the web page, but actually entering credentials moves you into "phished" no matter how curious you are.
I've also entered fake credentials into a clearly faked login form to see what'd happen. Would it redirect me to the right site? Just claim the information was wrong? Send me to a mock up of the intranet I was trying to access? You can call it bad policy if you want (although you don't know about my precautions), but it doesn't mean I was phished.
1. Someone receives and reads the email sent to this email address.
2. That person is willing to enter data into a form.
This is 2 pieces of information the person didn’t have before, and it can be used in further phishing attempts in a variety of ways.
It doesn’t mean you were fooled, but that’s only half the story.
I tend to think this is good software dev practice anyway. You ought to be able to test everything on your testing servers, and if this doesn't adequately reproduce the production environment, it's a problem with your test system.
Then you won't be processing email on machines on those networks.
At that point, I think it's as likely that your airgapped email laptop can hack into your work machine through local network exploits.
If you think a hacker is going to manage all that, you might as well assume that the hacker can trick gmail in to opening the email for you. There's a point at which we have to realistically assume that some layer of security works, and go about our lives.
I'm curious what definition of airgap you're using?
AWS uses it this way: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...
2. Please don't contribute to giving marketing license to remove what little meaning words still have.
Definitely! UCSF had a security firm send out a fishy-looking fishing email. My email client pointed out the url did not match the link text, whois told me it was a security company, and I opened the URL in a VM.
“You just got fished!” eye roll
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of those employees at gitlab were not so much fished as curious.