> Keep sensitive data off of shared systems, use a strong password and Two Factor Authentication, keep your systems up to date, and be thoughtful about the trust you put into where you upload your data.<p>Also be thoughtful about the trust you put into <i>who you share any data with</i> (especially photos) and be conscious about who can see it (this is a big deal on social media, where privacy and visibility permissions aren’t easily understood or used by people). Unless you’re a celebrity (and sometimes even if you’re a celebrity), sensitive information could leak from anyone you’ve shared it with.
Recent versions of Windows 10 have the Sandbox feature which gives you quick and easy access to a temporary VM that would let you safely open the attachment as described in this article. Obviously not as secure as Kali Linux, but more usable to most people than spinning up a Kali VM.
So a whole lot of nothing. They pulled a list and loaded an email campaign. I wonder who is actually paying up here. Nice to learn about some tools that I was not familiar with though.
There seems to be an accessibility issue with this link. I do get an essentially empty page in Firefox and Chrome when I try to read this with a screen reader. Opening the same page with lynx also gives me an empty page (no surprise there), and skimming through the page source, the HTML/CSS/JS contains far too much obscure stuff to actually trust this page.
tl;dr: they got one of these spam email that you’ll find a dozen of in your spam box, made up a bunch of “potential” bad things that could happen but none of that happened and the spammer just wanted bitcoins.
<a href="https://share.icloud.com/photos/0fB49xX6FueVyXTFbo0my-OEg" rel="nofollow">https://share.icloud.com/photos/0fB49xX6FueVyXTFbo0my-OEg</a><p>This is literally the entire article on mobile safari<p>EDIT: purify ad-blocker caused the issue