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BrianKrebs

Called it. Wrote this back in Sept. 2024, about a clever Windows Powershell phishing scam that was targeting developers at the time. It uses a fake CAPTCHA that asks visitors to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. Everyone said, bah, devs will never fall for this. Maybe, I said, but your average user would for sure.

Judging from the number of recent media reports, it appears this one is pretty widespread at the moment.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/th

The phony CAPTCHA's "verification" steps include: 1. Press Windows button + R key 2. Press Ctrl-V 3. Press enter.
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@briankrebs @scott That is a really bad way to treat the users of the system, as it's a pain to do many things in windows without the run command (although it could be argued they deserve whatever punishment for willingly being employed by an business that uses windows (but only if they had a choice in the matter)).
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@Suiseiseki @briankrebs sorry there are shitty people who make it so we can't have nice things. If it's a choice between your business getting ransomed and making your people use the mouse there's an obvious right answer.

Mar 14, 2025, 02:13 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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@scott @briankrebs If you use windows, it's not a question if you will get ransomwared, it's a question of when.

If you want a basic level of security, the only choice is to use GNU/Linux (which may seem extremely expensive due to all the handcuffs you have to cut off the business, but once you've removed them you'll realize that costs are cause by microsoft and other parasites and once you've cut off such parasites, your costs will be much, much lower and you'll no longer need to fight with the computers).
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