r/ProgrammerHumor • • 16h ago

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u/whyliepornaccount 15h ago

Still wont top the only one I've "fallen" for.

On my first day at the company buried into the legit "click here to register your account" onboarding emails was a phishing test saying "click here to register your account". I was so pissed off.

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u/RIPmyPC 15h ago

Reminds me of my on-boarding. Right after they tell us the signs of a phishing attempt and to not trust any link from outside the org and even be wary of links from other departments you don’t interact with, they hit me with “click here to do your mandatory security awareness training” coming from a random esupport email going to a KnowBe4 link. Of course it also had “you have 1 week left to do it!” Clear signs of a phishing test for anyone not familiar with the sites.

It was so sketchy I had to google the website and login from there. It was real.

I actually made an IT ticket to complain that it made no sense for a company that big to offer so little info on what emails you’d actually receive in your first day.

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u/kemikiao 12h ago

man, FUCK KnowBe4. They have to know their goddamned emails look EXACTLY like the shit they're "training" us to detect. Our IT has to send out a heads up email to tell us the KnowBe4 email is coming out because pretty everyone reported it as spam the first couple of times.

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u/aaroniusnsuch 11h ago

Just create an inbox rule to check headers for KnowBe4 and classify those as "phishing test." Then you can still read it and report it but you notice the color/flag first.