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Had the same exact experience in August. Amazing thing was I KNEW the email was phishing. I was asked to look at it by someone internally who was suspicious. I
by scandox 10y ago
Had the same exact experience in August.
Amazing thing was I KNEW the email was phishing. I was asked to look at it by someone internally who was suspicious. I forwarded it to a Gmail account I use for dodgy items. I fired up a VM and logged in to the Gmail account. I looked at the email. I briefly examined the raw message (too briefly). Then I clicked on what I still thought was a Google Drive attachment.
My first thought was "oh I've been logged out of Gmail for some reason". I was just about to login again when I decided to double check the URL and finally saw what was going on.
I think most normal users would be very vulnerable to this. It's very subtle. Luckily the guy in accounts is paranoid.
- ericleung 10y agoThe scariest part is that you knew that there was something suspicious and still [almost] got phished. There's no reason to believe anyone (technical or not) that wasn't looking out for something suspicious would have possibly avoided the attack. Pretty nasty phishing attempt, way more subtle than past attacks.