ByDavey Winder,
Senior Contributor.
Cybercriminal hackers will try anything to get their potential victims to give up their account credentials and, ultimately, their data. From asking X users to review their tweets with a fake DMCA notice, to using multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in a single attack, and even deploying VPN apps to entrap unwitting users. But one of the most commonplace threats currently employed by attackers uses the least commonplace of technical tactics. Here’s how hackers are giving Microsoft Windows users the finger, and why you need to take it very seriously indeed.
As reported by Lawrence Abrams, editor in chief at Bleeping Computer, hackers are using the most unlikely of technical tactics to entrap users of Microsoft Windows. And with excellent success rates, it would appear. Cybercriminals are many things, but stupid is not generally one of them. They certainly would not waste their precious time on an ineffective attack strategy. The attacks in question are not new, far from it in fact. We are talking about ClickFix, sometimes called a scam-yourself attack, but always highly dangerous.
Where does hackers giving Microsoft raw finger come into all of this? “The decades-old finger command is making a comeback,” Abrams warned, “with threat actors using the protocol to retrieve remote commands to execute on Windows devices.”
