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Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA tricks victims into opening a tunnel for attackers

Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA tricks victims into opening a tunnel for attackers
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Attackers are using fake CAPTCHA prompts to trick victims into running malicious PowerShell commands as part of a multi-stage intrusion campaign that can establish persistence, conduct network reconnaissance and potentially give operators a path to deeper access within an organization. Microsoft Threat Intelligence said a campaign it calls TerminalFix, a variant of the ClickFix technique, uses compromised websites to display a fake Cloudflare verification prompt. Victims are tricked into copying

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