Oh For Fuck’s Sake, Not This Shit Again: Local Government Officials Too Stupid to Spot a Phish
The FBI is waving their arms around like a drunk traffic cop because some mouth-breathing city and county officials are falling for phishing emails impersonating their colleagues. Apparently, these government drones are clicking links from “MayorSmith@totally-legit-not-russian.ru” and handing over their goddamn credentials like candy at Halloween.
These attacks aren’t even sophisticated. We’re talking basic bitch social engineering—spoofed email addresses, urgent subject lines like “URGENT: WIRE TRANSFER NEEDED NOW OR THE CITY EXPLODES,” and malicious attachments named “Definitely_Not_Malware.pdf.exe.” And yet, here we are, with the FBI having to issue a goddamn warning because Dave from Accounts Receivable can’t tell the difference between a legitimate interoffice memo and a phishing attempt written in broken English by someone calling themselves “Prince Nigeria.”
The scumbags behind this shitshow are impersonating mayors, council members, and department heads to trick employees into wiring money or installing malware. Because apparently, in fucking 2024, we still have absolute window-lickers who think the Mayor is going to email them personally at 3 AM requesting Amazon gift cards. Newsflash: if your boss is messaging you at zero-dark-thirty asking for iTunes vouchers, maybe—just maybe—pick up the fucking phone and verify instead of emptying the municipal coffers into some criminal’s Bitcoin wallet?
But no, that would require common sense, which is apparently in shorter supply than functioning brain cells in local government IT departments. So now we have to deal with the FBI crawling up everyone’s asses because Karen from the zoning department clicked “Enable Macros” on a document titled “Invoice_From_Satan.docm” and infected the entire network with ransomware that encrypts files faster than you can say “resume updating.”
Jesus wept. Or maybe he’s just facepalming so hard he gave himself a concussion.
Reminds me of the time I had to “accidentally” delete the email account of a user who fell for the same Nigerian prince scam three times in one fucking month. Third time’s the charm, they say. I say third time’s a permanent vacation from the mail server with a one-way ticket to /dev/null. Funny how their productivity improved when they couldn’t receive emails anymore—sometimes the best security policy is no access at all.
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