Can’t make the wrong people look bad.
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Heh, an employee at my work got an email saying his anti-malware was failing to update, and to run http://10.3.4.2/xbejdjr.exe and that they need to click allow when the browser warns them that it is rejected, then right click, run as administrator, and they need to click allow in two other places to let it run.
So he reported as phishing, then IT contacted his manager saying he was failing to help IT run a required update, it was evidently totally legit, but just the most scammy looking way they imagined.
That is so fucking sketchy, I'd have to talk to the IT guy myself or get on a video call to make sure their email or the group chat or whatever wasn't compromised.
is it tho? that's a LAN IP, so just a file on the company's network. browsers whine about http by default bc its security over WAN. then windows just whines about everything
Yes. An average employee doesn't know the difference between public and private IP's
well of course. just meant the IT guy didnt necessarily do anything sketchy or wrong, just a consequence of all those modern security prompts. totally get why folk would be apprehensive seeing that, deal with it all the time. but i've also never seen a company where they have an SSL cert for the LAN or something either, it just gets explained
Lol. That's not sketchy at all. /s