In the old days, anyone could easily snoop on internet traffic. The data was unprotected, so everything getting passed between a computer and a server was out in the open, whether that was website text and images or your username and password. When universal encryption took over, it blocked spying—but unfortunately, bad actors evolved along with the increased security.
One kind of attack is especially popular: First known as a man-in-the-middle attack (now referred to machine-in-the-middle, adversary-in-the-middle, or on-path attacks), it lets hackers insert themselves between your devices and the server they communicate with, in order to steal login information ad session cookies to then take over your account.
It starts with you clicking on a phishing link, then entering your credentials on
