FBI Warns Gmail, Outlook, AOL, Yahoo Users—Hackers Gain Access To Accounts
Do this now to stop criminals bypassing MFA and reading your emails.
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.
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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.
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".
congrats! you're the first person I've seen actually get what "phishing" means.
every fish can be caught, they react on instinct. same for people and links. they were made to be clicked so we instinctually click them.
Also:
The threat affects all email platforms providing web logins, albeit Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and AOL are by far the largest
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.
Sometimes I get phishing sent to protonmail. These guys think that protonmail users will be a good target for their scams? Lmao