FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo Users—Hackers Gain Access To Accounts
FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo Users—Hackers Gain Access To Accounts
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FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo Users—Hackers Gain Access To Accounts
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I was lured into reading a suspicious Forbes article.
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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As someone who actively defends and trains against these attacks, I still see people downloading and executing suspicious files regularly.
It's always the same people in my experience. No matter how many times they go through the training it never seems to stick.
Yeah, I dunno what the facepalm is supposed to be about. 99% of the rest of the world has about 1% of the tech knowledge that the average Lemmy user is going to have. These scams are wildly effective, and it's not really a matter of general intelligence as far as who falls victim to them.
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".
Also:
This is really just a generic article saying "be careful what you click on"
An old time classic.
Thank you, I saw Forbes and was immediately suspicious of click bait.