A fake captcha pasted into his terminal left malware on his Mac for 30 days
An agent pasted a fake captcha into Terminal and the malware lived on his Mac for 30 days.
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How it works
- A fake captcha is pasted into the terminal
- The malware lives on his Mac for 30 days
Why it’s worth knowing
The paste was the exploit; the human hand was the agent that ran it.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on medium.com. See the original ↗