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The risk of fake CAPTCHAs

We’ve all seen CAPTCHA prompts before, the ones asking you to click on images with traffic lights or type some squiggly letters to prove ²â´Ç³Ü’r±ð human. But a sneaky scam is making the rounds again, these are fake CAPTCHA pages that trick you into running malicious code on your device. ±õ³Ù’s part of a social engineering tactic known as ClickFix. Ìý
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You might visit a website (often from a phishing email or pop-up) and see what looks like a normal CAPTCHA, but after clicking the checkbox, it requests a few extra steps, for example:Ìý

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