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[-] OneCardboardBox 114 points 10 months ago

Happened at my workplace. An phishing email went out to test how likely people were to click the link.

Anyone who clicked the link had to take phishing training. Anyone who forwarded it to our internal "hey this is a phishing email" service also had to take training... because the internal service would automatically click the link.

[-] Solarius 119 points 10 months ago

sounds like the internal phishing service should be the one needing to do training

[-] doctordevice@lemm.ee 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I'm very confused by this. Why do the users notifying IT have to do the training?

I've worked a help desk before, while after dozens of people sending it in we don't really need it forwarded anymore, people don't know that until we get the I'd still rather people forward it than click it. Ignore and delete is best since I guarantee someone will forward it to IT, but forwarding (even forwarding and asking) is never bad and demonstrates good awareness.

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 17 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm very confused by this. Why do the users notifying IT have to do the training?

The URL likely is unique per user. They forward it, IT clicks the link, it registers that that user clicked the link even though IT did it.

[-] HerbalGamer@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

IT clicks the link,

stop that part then

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 7 points 10 months ago

If only I had the power

[-] railsdev@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Random but what I always wonder is: what’s the point of forwarding?

Are we assuming they’re attaching the original email’s source so that the headers can be used to determine the source? Without that, the only thing useful I can think of would be any links in the email body.

Asking because I’ve owned an email address or two that got leaked in data dumps so I go crazy tracking down the sending server’s owner, any companies they’re pretending to be, any domain registrars, etc. and a lot of that requires analyzing the headers.

[-] sim642@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

IT can look up the original (including all headers) based on the forwarded content. It's on the same mail server.

[-] railsdev@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Oh that’s right! Wow!! Really feeling dumb for that one now.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 10 months ago

Ah, yeah, forward as attachement of course.

[-] __init__@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

They got me good with this one time. It looked like a newsletter from like Seattle times or something, I was like I didn’t sign up for this shit and immediately clicked the unsubscribe link, boom enrolled in training. Well played, guys.

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 34 points 10 months ago

I mean, just don't click anything in a phishing e-mail

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

What if I click it a lot?

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months ago

Stop doing that in a phishing e-mail then /s

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

knock yourself out

[-] tiziodcaio@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

Neither close it

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good ideer, thanks

[-] odium@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

?

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Could a swore I typed good idea. Was prolly high AF lol

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 4 points 10 months ago

Cletus dun took over yer kee-clicky box n typed it fur ye.

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

This guy fucks

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 10 months ago

Only cuzin Ellie tho, we got rules

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Thought you were just speaking dutch

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months ago

Am Dutch, cannot confirm, I haven't got the foggiest what an ideer is.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

It's Apple's new smart deer technology

[-] rony4102@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I hate this guy from bottom of my core

[-] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

"I know I know, Leon is talking backwards, this isn't good"

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