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So is everyone just out here with tonnes of malware on their phone? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I know for a fact most people click every link they receive, or I wouldn't get so much mandatory security training at work, so if millions of people are just walking around after downloading random PDFs and word documents from their email onto their phone, what does this mean?

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[–] PaX@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

The malware comes pre-installed on phones these days even

Nah but working exploits in PDF and DOCX parsers are relatively hard to come by now. Those usually only get used on you if you're a special target in some way.

Unless you don't update your software lol

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wish my phone could open .docx

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think OnlyOffice Documents can do that

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I blame Microsoft

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