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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I'm on our cybersecurity team and our last phishing sim was so real looking and legit sounding I thought it was real, and I knew the phish was coming. The only indicator was the sender email was a slight misspelling of Microsoft. I pointed out that that phish is not a fair phish, our users are not going to meticulously examine every email for microscopic indicators. Half if them are barely tech literate, but they're doctors or nurses and only know what they need to know to do their job. Our cybersecurity lead was completely in "wtf are you talking about? From Micrasoft.com is totally illegitimate" mode, I had to point out that our users flag 70% of the emails as phish, and phishing tests that look like completely legitimate emails aside from a single character out of place in an obscure location most of our users aren't even thinking if looking at undermine legitimate emails and increase our workload b/c we've trained our users to think every email is a phish test from cybersecuriry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention the fact that the majority of email clients these days don't even actually show you the full URL of the mail server that the mail is coming from. It gets obfuscated away over the display name and you have to explicitly go out of your way to actually see the full URL

[–] Charzard4261 5 points 5 days ago

This is so crazy to me. Why the hell did they start hiding the address? The one thing that can't be faked? Couldn't believe how hard it was the first time I needed to check.

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