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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

Totally agreed, I get it's easier to consider it a fail if you open the link, and that simply opening a random link has some inherent risk, but there should at least be a fake page to enter credentials and evaluate how many people actually go through with that, and break that out as a CRITICAL where the other clicks are HIGH or MEDIUM status, to classify the risk.

Also, this is just an anecdote, but in a similar phishing simulation i helped with, we had to bypass filters for rejecting emails with links for websites registered in the last 60 days. Obviously this isn't a foolproof way to prevent phishing attempts, but it does cut out a lot of junk, and we've indirectly been training employees to not deal with that.