{"id":204338,"date":"2025-01-23T02:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/telegram-captcha-tricks-you-into-running-malicious-powershell-scripts"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:33:21","slug":"telegram-captcha-tricks-you-into-running-malicious-powershell-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/telegram-captcha-tricks-you-into-running-malicious-powershell-scripts","title":{"rendered":"Telegram captcha tricks you into running malicious PowerShell scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telegram-captcha-tricks-you-into-running-malicious-powershell-scripts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors on X are exploiting the news around Ross Ulbricht to direct unsuspecting users to a Telegram channel that tricks them into run PowerShell code that infects them with malware.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vxunderground\/status\/1881946956806926351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spotted by vx-underground<\/a>, is a new variant of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-google-chrome-errors-trick-you-into-running-malicious-powershell-scripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click-Fix<\/a>\u201d tactic that has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-it-support-sites-push-malicious-powershell-scripts-as-windows-fixes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">very popular<\/a> among threat actors to distribute malware <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-google-meet-conference-errors-push-infostealing-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over the past year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, instead of being fixes for common errors, this variant pretends to be a captcha or verification system that users must run to join the channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors on X are exploiting the news around Ross Ulbricht to direct unsuspecting users to a Telegram channel that tricks them into run PowerShell code that infects them with malware. The attack, spotted by vx-underground, is a new variant of the \u201cClick-Fix\u201d tactic that has become very popular among threat actors to distribute malware [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}