“Warning, serious accident: here are the photos”, why you should not click on this kind of link on social networks

Why do hackers have fun publishing this kind of message? An investigation will have to determine it. But there’s a good chance it’s to extract money”we could, for example, imagine a call for donations “explains Olivier Bogaert, commissioner of the Computer Crime Unit.

The message also implicitly refers to the drama of Strépy-Bracquegnies: “The crooks will take advantage of the news and make sure that it can lead to a fairly quick reaction from people. With social networks, we have this form of immediacy which will make a large part of Internet users react.

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