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Attacks begin when users are lured into “visiting suspicious websites or click on phishing links that download malicious software onto their computer.”
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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.
As someone who actively defends and trains against these attacks, I still see people downloading and executing suspicious files regularly.
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.
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.
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.
An old time classic.
