• merde alors
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    59
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 hours 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        edit-2
        9 hours 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.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          2 hours ago

          It’s always being an attack vector. Phishing scams have been the oldest form of fraud from the beginning.

          It’s basically the same principle that con artists have been using for decades long before the invention of the internet

    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      10 hours ago

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

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 hours ago

        It’s always the same people in my experience. No matter how many times they go through the training it never seems to stick.

      • Chozo@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        9 hours ago

        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.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          2 hours ago

          You don’t need to have advanced technological know-how to know about phishing scams. Practically every company has a boring training course you have to go through at least once a year.

          I work in cyber security and they still feel the need to tell us about phishing scams, like we don’t know about 100 other scarier things.

        • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          4 hours ago

          For me, the article makes it seem like there’s some new announcement that the FBI has put out about a newly discovered vulnerability. Turns out, the announcement is about vulnerabilities we’ve known about for a long time.

        • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          6 hours ago

          Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.