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Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I find that Cybersecurity training emails hit every red flag for a phishing email even if it's legit:

From an external organization without my company's letterhead.
Automated and I receive it at like 4am
A message saying something to the effect of "IT has assigned important training for you"
A link whose URL is a long string to an unidentifiable site
Clicking the link immediately takes you to a login page to enter your company email.

If I wanted access to someone email and password maliciously, I'd totally make a cybersecurity training site like http://cybersecuritytraining.biz, tell people they are due for company cybersecurity training just like this and I bet I'd get a lot of accounts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We recently got those training mails (legit ones just to make that clear) and the IT got so many tickets about it despite telling us that they were planned and showed an example of how they looked on teams, they had to make another post that essentially said „yes, this is legit, you can click the link.“

It amused me greatly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just means you all passed step one of phishing training. Ask someone else so the blame is on them when shit hits the fan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes totally. But it was also funny how that is the thing everybody is drilled on to the degree of wanting to make super extra sure.