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Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online (www.csoonline.com)
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[–] 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Back in ancient times when I was a system administrator we got a heads up that there be a new breed of Outlook worm coming soon to our timezone.

So we mailed the entire office that if you get mail that looks like this or that, do not open it, do not interact but delete it on sight.

Most of the office was all right, except pretty much entire sales and marketing departments including the bosses. Most of them had noOo idea what could have happened but one of them explained that they saw the warning but they were curious to see what the virus looks like.

People. What a bunch of bastards.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago

    Sales and marketing don't count. Critical thinking doesn't sell. So you won't find critical thinkers in those departments.
    From a security standpoint, those departments are to be considered hostile. But you can lock down the PCs there as much as possible to reduce the offline time because computer-illiterate employees don't care about being able to install stuff or change settings.

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