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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/cybersecurity

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is similar to how casual users on Windows should be limited to a non-admin account, to limit vectors for malware.