Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

A user encountered a fake CAPTCHA on the Crooked Timber website that attempted to trick them into running a malicious PowerShell command via the Windows Run dialog. The attack, known as ClickFix, works by injecting a script into the clipboard and instructing the user to paste and execute it, which would download and run a dropper from a remote server. The user recognized the attempt in time. The key takeaway: never execute code through the Run dialog to solve a CAPTCHA — legitimate services never require this.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084404. 8sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.