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Beware PowerShell: Too-helpful users tricked into ‘fixing’ their machines with malware (www.csoonline.com)

submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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Attackers are using social engineering to get users to copy, paste, and run malicious scripts — all while thinking they are helping out the IT team.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't it what happens on Mac? I'm told there is a command line on there, but I'll be damned if I've ever met* a Mac addict who's heard of it, let alone used it.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I'm certainly biased, but we use macOS at work and nearly everyone is familiar with the terminal. We're developers though, but even our less technical people (product owners and whatnot) know what it is and what it can do.

But yeah, I wouldn't be opposed to turning on a dev option to enable it though. I use it every day, but most don't need to (even our devs could configure commands in their IDE).