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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.”
🤦
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.
Tying it to big name providers like they have a security hole in the title is clickbait at absolute best.
As someone who actively defends and trains against these attacks, I still see people downloading and executing suspicious files regularly.
An old time classic.
Thank you, I saw Forbes and was immediately suspicious of click bait.
