Fake CAPTCHA

Petersl

Hi everyone,

There's this new scam that infects your devices with malware, this is called "fake CAPTCHA" or "Clipboard Hijacking", source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/fake-captcha/

What happens when you get one of these fake CAPTCHA's? Will this be automatically blocked by bitdefender or will bitdefender give a warning? I assume the bitdefender team is already aware of this new threat and this is already updated in the bitdefender antivirus/firewall?

Bonfire9911

I am sure BD already knew about this threat, as it's pretty prevalent. A variant is known as ClickFix.

A local institution's website was taken over recently and now redirects to multiple malicious pages (I don't know how the pages are selected), including a fake CAPTCHA page. I was stopped by the following security solutions:

1. uBlock origin list (multiple)
2. (probably) nextDNS
3. BitDefender's Traffic light, Norton Safe Web, MalwareBytes' browser guard (testing one at a time).

For Bitdefender, it just displays a message along the lines of "This is a dangerous (website/page?)..."

I don't know for sure, but I don't think it's based on a "live" page/****** analysis; it's most likely based on a dynamically updated list of IPs/URLs, as the blocks from the 3 above were all very quick.