wtf sort of verification is this? no fucking way am I going to run whatever is in my buffer that you probably put there. I assume this must be some sort of hijack right?
Edit: yes thank you I know a) not to run it (I didn’t), b) it’s ClickFix, and c) to let the website owners know (I have done this).
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@CatherineFlick yes indeed websites can copy stuff to the buffer: e.g. a lot of webapp text editors do it to handle a contextual (right click) "copy" menu inside their elaborate interfaces.
So this hack that pretends to be a clouflare check has surely put some nasty commands in the buffer.
did you paste the buffer into notepad instead, and save it for the posterity?
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@CatherineFlick I still don't understand why browser makers think it's ok for browsers to have direct access to the clipboard. This really really needs to not be a thing...
I was curious what it was going to have people paste, but it looks like they've already fixed it. I opened it up in a TOR browser and it just did the spinning thing and then went straight to the sight without a popup. I'm sort of curious what it tried to run, but it's gone now and good riddance anyway.
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The instructions are specific to Windows. It’s possible that they’ve created a payload that works on other platforms, so if you paste them into some other terminal, who knows what happens.
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