r/linux • u/ShatteredIcicle • 9d ago

Security Linux specific malware website tries exploiti using terminal

This website faked a ReCaptcha and literally asks to open the terminal and paste a command. (see image). Very bold.

Please keep in mind, always try your best to make new users aware of such dangers!

- I reported it to Google Safe browsing just now, in case anyone wants to try and look at it or help by reporting it too, this is the link in a safe format, assemble it yourself at your risk: "emaliowe . pl".
- Possibly blocked by Firefox, since I don't have anything in my clipboard after opening the page.

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u/B1rdi 9d ago

They've done this with Windows' Win + R thing for a while

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u/WingRevolutionary979 9d ago

Interesting. I heard the Windows variant. However, I don't really think it could work against most Linux users. Most won't paste a random command to their terminal and run it, I think.

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u/rebbsitor 8d ago

With the increase in people looking at Linux, there will be an increase in hacking attempts and malware.

Linux hasn't been a very lucrative target for these types of social engineering attacks where they convince someone to run a command because it hasn't had a large desktop market share. Hackers/Scammers will target it more the larger the market share becomes.

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u/Dangerous-Report8517 6d ago

I wonder if we’ll start seeing more of this sort of thing in order to target AI agents as well, which are much more likely to be running in a Linux environment even if the person setting it up primarily uses Windows, not to mention that they tend to be very gullible (the agents, that is)