A new research experiment conducted by New York-based Web security firm Trusteer found that even educated e-mail users click on links that can potentially lead to websites containing malware, Trusteer CEO Mickey Boodaei said.
The Trusteer experiment entailed sending e-mails that listed the social networking site LinkedIn as the sender to 100 friends and family members of Trustee researchers.
The e-mails contained a link that claimed to lead users to a new job alert, but instead directed them to an outside website – a common strategy used by attackers, Boodeai said. Within seven days, Trusteer found that 68 of the 100 subjects had followed the link.
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