ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

10 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by joozio

3 Comments

cassianoleal

5 hours ago

I almost fell for one. Actually I did, but uBO blocked it.

I searched for "Homebrew install". Clicked the first link. It looked exactly the same as the legit brew.sh. I was tired and didn't even think twice. Google wouldn't have put the scam clone website ahead of the real one, right?

When I clicked to copy the install command (which read exactly correct), I got the uBO message saying it blocked a ClickFix attack. Users who do that without protection would have the wrong URL on their clipboard, and likely install malware thinking they were getting upstream Homebrew.

xethos

4 hours ago

I haven't seen it spelled out, either here or in TFA: Is uBlock Origin, and thus Firefox, required? Or is uBlock Origin Lite, and therefore a Chromium-based browser, sufficient?

Which one blocked the homebrew attack you mentioned? Because while I have a suspicion, knowing, and having it stated explicitly, is still good information to have