• merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Attacks begin when users are lured into “visiting suspicious websites or click on phishing links that download malicious software onto their computer.”

    🤦

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Incidentally, we try not to use these sorts of “Forbes contributor” articles on Wikipedia when possible. They’re effectively just blogs masquerading under the credibility of Forbes staff’s actual journalism.

        That said, I don’t see anything wrong with this excerpt. This is legitimate attack vector.

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      4 months ago

      As someone who actively defends and trains against these attacks, I still see people downloading and executing suspicious files regularly.

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      4 months ago

      After reading various news amd stories about phishing, I no longer think anyone is really “too smart to be phished”. Not the matter of “If”, but “Under what circumstances”.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes I get phishing sent to protonmail. These guys think that protonmail users will be a good target for their scams? Lmao