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FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

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Re: FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

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Post by analogpixel »

For people that can't grok the title and the article like me:

- BasedApparel.com is a website owned by a person that happens to be the FBI director now. (he owned it before he became the director if it matters)

- The website BasedApparel.com was hacked and the hackers added a malicious click here to verify you are human section that tried to have you download a malicious payload if you were on macos.

Re: FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

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Post by bdcravens »

analogpixel wrote: post #5

For people that can't grok the title and the article like me: - BasedApparel.com is a website owned by a person that happens to be the FBI director now. (he owned it before he became the director if it matters) - The website BasedApparel.com was hacked and the hackers added a malicious click here to verify you are human section that tried to have you download a malicious payload if you were on macos.

> he owned it before he became the director if it matters

All the more reason that those who "serve" in the government should be required to divest of their business interests. The traffic such a site would get due to the tribalism prevalent in US politics makes it a fat target, and potentially a national security threat.

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Post by kibwen »

jmward01 wrote: post #7
ray_v wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What next? The trump phone shipping Chinese malware. Unthinkable!

It wouldn't be Chinese. It would be Russian.

To paraphrase Hickam's dictum, a phone can have as many sources of malware as it damn well pleases.
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