Attacks begin when users are lured into “visiting suspicious websites or click on phishing links that download malicious software onto their computer.”
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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I was lured into reading a suspicious Forbes article.
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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.