Post #871415
2026-03-30 11:32 UTC
I recently heard of the fake CAPTCHA SCAMS: https://www.malwarebytes.com/cybersecurity/basics/fake-captcha-scams
#scam
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@Theriac@plasmatrap.com 2026-03-30 12:26
@eobeara@mastodon.ie Sightly less steps than the OSX version, which I've outlined in a quote below, but it's the same MO and it still requires user input. Leaving aside the issue that captcha are intrinsically morally dubious - anything that is an aberration of previously observed behaviour should be ringing alarm bells in your head. This isn't absent mindedly clicking on a pdf. You manually need to find and launch the terminal app, then copy and paste the payload into it and then run the payload. If you consider following instructions telling you to copy some random text off the internet a rational thing to do, getting your data stolen is the least of your worries.