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This was like, the first thing I was taught in my computer safety classes, how is it not ingrained in everyone alive

Phishing scams are more than email.

Hey check out my new Song youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?...

…but she said I can see her private photos there.

Still better than not having it, though.

What upsets me the most is that session injection isn't some obscure technique. It was common in the forum days 20 years ago. And devs learned to write forum software to safeguard against it. But modern app companies seem to be completely unaware of any of the security lessons we learned back then.

If you want a good chuckle, my friend got compromised because of an honest mistake. The hackers proceeded to message our in group paranoid info sec guy. Fireworks ensued.

bsky.app/profile/ment...

it's like...laughable how many folks are failing this basic internet security test. We thought it was our parents falling for the scams when it was our friends all along

You can also help to avoid this by being less popular and having fewer friends. Isn't that what they mean by "security through obscurity"?