I just saw this and felt I should share it. I’m sure most people here wouldn’t fall for it but it can’t hurt to make sure 👍
Edit: I just wanted to add, I have no idea what this tried to copy. I’m using Firefox on Linux which is perhaps why it didn’t make it to my clipboard 🤷
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If your web browser tells you to do something outside of your web browser, you shouldn’t.
Please check your phone for the verification code we sent you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I get my messages in my browser though
Many non tech users wouldn’t even realize they were leaving the browser.
Non tech users…like the Amish?
I meant “non tech literate” but I’ll own it at this point 🤣
Have a blessed day!
Should I keep a copy of the file that I can then start using again after payment?
My brother ran into this while car shopping on a reputable Utah based Toyota dealership’s website. It was a powershell script that downloaded and executed something from a base64 encoded Bitly URL. Bitly took down the URL so we couldn’t see where it was redirecting.
It seems like attackers are embedding this in vulnerable legit websites
Thanks, that’s very interesting to know. I assumed it was just a malicious site before.
Easily stopped by using Ad Blockers… Now if only chrome wasnt trying to kill ad blockers
Someone having a virus on their computer doesn’t prevent them from giving Google ad revenue.
This tactic is so old, but it weaponizes the annoying ubiquity of capchas. People just want to get to where they’re going, so they click the squares and do the dance to get past the seemingly arbitrary barriers.
This technique shows up on !cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works every few weeks as the initial attack vector for some new RAT.
Legit question- who is this for? I can’t imagine anyone getting to PC Master Race on Lemmy that would fall for something this obvious.
There’s a ton of IT workers on lemmy (go figure). Being aware of the current scams is quite valuable, since it means both that you can warn your users and you know what to look for when they inevitably ignore your warning and do it anyways.
You maybe not, your family? All your friends/coworkers/etc? Talk about scams with people, lots of people use PCs without knowing what is and isn’t safe.
Some of us sort by All, so it’s a random chance of seeing this
Hi. That’s me. I came from all.
I’m also not a complete dumbass, but i appreciate the post, b/c some of my family could BSoD a pocket watch
I love this saying, but I think it meant a lot more before smartwatches.
I specifically choose pocket watch because the odds of it being smart are very low lol
Useful for someone like me who saw this in All. You know the “Granny lowers her glasses and peers into the computer screen” meme? That’s me, except I have progressive lenses (to match my politics) so I leave my glasses up.
There are two types of grandmas:
Microsoft verification needed! Please insert penis in hole and pull lever.
You click the link, it copies bad code, then asks you to paste the code on a privileged terminal window and hit run.
I saw this a week sometime ago and I had to explain it to all my family members. Evilness.
Easily defeated by not giving users root access.
Taking away admin access on my mother’s windows machine was one of the best decisions I made. Along with moving her to Ubuntu after she ran without admin ‘which she had to have’ (even though all it let her do was fuck up her computer). Saved so many hours reinstalling or disinfecting her machine.
windows key+r to open the “run” dialog
lol nope!
I came across this yesterday. It was right after a run of the mill “I am not a robot” message.
On which website?
99% sure it was diyflyfishing.com
Virustotal showd that as clean. Interesting.
Weird thing, to answer your question I delved into my Google history. I saw the “prove your not a robot” with the diyflyfishing proceeding it so i clicked on that. It didn’t come up this time (on a phone now, initially saw it on desktop) and now the “prove you’re not a robot” isn’t in my history?
I think Microsoft should add a warning before allowing pasting into the Run dialog for the first time. Similarly like they already have in Edge’s console
Hot take, win+r should be disabled by default and have an option to enable. Probably 99% or more of users will never use the run dialogue
Linux does this better by defaulting to files not being executable, versus Windows needing the downloading software to apply a specific “downloaded file” flag to trigger a notice about potentially unsafe files.
You could make a lot of the commands available by default much less dangerous. Stuff like requiring using protected screens more (like UAC and ctrl+alt+del) for enabling the risky stuff.
Also, sandboxing by default would do even more to prevent the worst dangers.
Disagree, mostly because half the time I WinR is when I’m trying to fix someone else’s PC, and getting to the settings is half the problem.
Honestly having Win-R enabled in home edition is a bad default.
Agree. It’s usually used just to run
cmd, which then does the same thing but also shows output and allows for interactive CLI. Linux does it right with Ctrl+Alt+T.
Lucky for me, my mom doesn’t know what the windows key is.
Could someone just copy the clipboard content into a text editor so one could see what they are trying to do?
I can’t actually make it copy 😅 I’ve now also tried in Firefox and Chrome but it still hasn’t worked.
Anyone falling for this lacks a basic understanding of technology, and should not be near the Internet unsupervised until they do. Regardless of age - plenty of young folk blindly walking into shit too.
If you know people like this - please teach them. If you can’t teach them, at least set them up with foolproof tools. A non-chromium browser and ublock origin is a good start. If you’ve got the know-how, a DNSBL like a pihole (for whole home blocking) or adaway/blokada (for Android) are good additional layers.
And get their data backed up 😬
