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Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The fact that Windows hasn't solved the "fake extension" scam is wild. You can't make people not click stuff, obviously. But you absolutely could identify double extensions clearly intended to confuse people and give some kind of "this isn't a PDF" warning.
It's so dumb that Windows hides file extensions by default. They could just flip a toggle.
But don't you understand how confusing and scary those cryptic three letter strings are to normal people?? 😱
Administrator Plopp, what do I do if it has a 4 letter extension? That .jpeg is a virus right?
-sincerely, The dumbest user you know
Oh shit. Yes. I need you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del while pulling the power cord or else the virus will steal your RAM and upload your printer to a criminal server in the cloud!