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New Google Cyber Attack Warning As Russian APT28 Hackers Strike
Bots are a bad enough issue online, but now Google’s anti-bot reCAPTCHA security mechanisms are being disguised and deployed in new cyber attack.
ForbesNew Gmail Security Warning As 10-Second Hackers StrikeBy Davey Winder The frequency of these anti-bot CAPTCHA tools has reduced considerably for most users, in no small part by the sheer number of browser extensions that help to defeat them and the likes of iOS using Apple’s server-based automatic verification system to bypass the need to complete them yourself. In the case of this cyber attack campaign, CERT-UA said that ticking the checkbox asking for confirmation in response to the “I am not a robot” question will initiate a malicious PowerShell command instruction to the user’s clipboard. ForbesNSA Tells iPhone And Android Users: Reboot Your Device NowBy Davey Winder Which brings me to the second important point here: the cyber attack is initiated by clicking a link (don’t do that) which causes the I am not a robot dialog to appear in the first place.
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