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This is a myth: "Just be smart and you are safe from malware"
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<blockquote data-quote="upnorth" data-source="post: 1014296" data-attributes="member: 38832"><p>Agree and I do know that company tests can be specific created for a vendor/brand with pages/sites/links that is common seen and used in their environment. Makes it more tricky, but also more realistic. It's highly recommended and something well worth in education, but it should be done more then once as for example phishing has evolved extremely much.</p><p>[SPOILER="example"][URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/cyberattackers-spoof-google-translate-in-unique-phishing-tactic.117768/[/URL][/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>Here's a generic test that can help show some of the issues with phishing :</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://phishingquiz.withgoogle.com/?hl=en-GB[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Many people, even hardcore security geeks/nerds also ignore or forget the problem with phones. It's a huge difference being able to catch or prevent an attack on a phone compered with a PC/Mac. Phones are even for professionals re-searchers/analysts extra hard to catch a suspicious complete url, simply because the small screen on a phone. Try hover a link on a phone and be able know where it leads and if one can trust it. It's many times a major pain and very easy by accident click it. When attackers is able to abuse 100% legit services/platforms and infiltrate software/apps that works as intended, but suddenly later becomes malicious, it's not the fault of common users.</p><p>[SPOILER][URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/legit-android-apps-poisoned-by-sticky-zombinder-malware.119211/[/URL][/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>Smart, is always the main responsibility of the developer, but even they are people and doing it easy with lazy copy/paste and take shortcuts that easier creates bugs/vulnerabilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="upnorth, post: 1014296, member: 38832"] Agree and I do know that company tests can be specific created for a vendor/brand with pages/sites/links that is common seen and used in their environment. Makes it more tricky, but also more realistic. It's highly recommended and something well worth in education, but it should be done more then once as for example phishing has evolved extremely much. [SPOILER="example"][URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/cyberattackers-spoof-google-translate-in-unique-phishing-tactic.117768/[/URL][/SPOILER] Here's a generic test that can help show some of the issues with phishing : [URL unfurl="true"]https://phishingquiz.withgoogle.com/?hl=en-GB[/URL] Many people, even hardcore security geeks/nerds also ignore or forget the problem with phones. It's a huge difference being able to catch or prevent an attack on a phone compered with a PC/Mac. Phones are even for professionals re-searchers/analysts extra hard to catch a suspicious complete url, simply because the small screen on a phone. Try hover a link on a phone and be able know where it leads and if one can trust it. It's many times a major pain and very easy by accident click it. When attackers is able to abuse 100% legit services/platforms and infiltrate software/apps that works as intended, but suddenly later becomes malicious, it's not the fault of common users. [SPOILER][URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/legit-android-apps-poisoned-by-sticky-zombinder-malware.119211/[/URL][/SPOILER] Smart, is always the main responsibility of the developer, but even they are people and doing it easy with lazy copy/paste and take shortcuts that easier creates bugs/vulnerabilities. [/QUOTE]
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