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Big sales, even bigger scams: stay cyber safe this Black Friday!
Black Friday means big sales, and bigger risks! While online shopping is convenient, scammers also use this time to prop up fake stores, credential-stealing websites, offers that are too good to be true, and fake parcel delivery notifications.
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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 you’re 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. It’s part of a social engineering tactic known as ClickFix.
How does it work?
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:
