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The cute e-card that could infect your computer
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Your aunt sending you a sparkling, animated teddy bear used to be the greatest threat to cybersecurity. In the late 90s and early 2000s, malicious hackers realized that internet users would blindly click any executable file if it claimed to be a cute 'e-card.' It was the primary delivery vector for catastrophic viruses, proving that exploiting human sentimentality is far easier than actually hacking a firewall.
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