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1. gavinray · 1790094641 · focus · HN ↗

   The "zero day" is something they call a "ClickFix Attack"

   Upon Googling "ClickFix":

     > "A ClickFix attack is a social engineering technique... It typically compromises devices by manipulating victims into copying and pasting malicious commands directly into system-level tools"
   

   I'm sorry, that's not a zero-day, that's idiocy that's as old as time.

   1. dspillett · 1790106488 · focus · HN ↗

      > > It typically compromises devices by manipulating victims into copying and pasting malicious commands

      > […] that's idiocy that's as old as time.

      And constantly being reinvented: `curl -sL some.unverified.stuff.sh | bash`

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