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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 89360" data-source="post: 915501"><p>You can’t say it’s always user’s fault, because there are scenarios where user doesn’t have to do anything. Targeted attacks are one case, where you might be in your office, browsing through your email and you see a colleague of yours sent you a critical document. You open the document and kaboom - your company now owes hackers USD 1 million in BTC to unlock files, critical to the core operation. Because ransomware typically features collateral movement, another colleague of yours won’t even do anything - files on their machine will get encrypted as well.</p><p></p><p>So whose fault is all that?</p><p>You might say user who downloads the document, but this user is not a threat analyst.</p><p>You might say the IT admin, but with so many holes and security vulnerabilities, it’s hard to keep up.</p><p></p><p>Another scenario is the Piriform CCleaner case, where users didn’t have to do anything to be infected. I have had fraudulent transactions (blocked by my bank), because my data has leaked from trusted websites.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 89360, post: 915501"] You can’t say it’s always user’s fault, because there are scenarios where user doesn’t have to do anything. Targeted attacks are one case, where you might be in your office, browsing through your email and you see a colleague of yours sent you a critical document. You open the document and kaboom - your company now owes hackers USD 1 million in BTC to unlock files, critical to the core operation. Because ransomware typically features collateral movement, another colleague of yours won’t even do anything - files on their machine will get encrypted as well. So whose fault is all that? You might say user who downloads the document, but this user is not a threat analyst. You might say the IT admin, but with so many holes and security vulnerabilities, it’s hard to keep up. Another scenario is the Piriform CCleaner case, where users didn’t have to do anything to be infected. I have had fraudulent transactions (blocked by my bank), because my data has leaked from trusted websites. [/QUOTE]
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