Clever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas

Clever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas

This is really interesting.

It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the command line.

Clever.

Tags: captchas, malware, social engineering

Posted on September 20, 2024 at 11:32 AM • 0 Comments

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