I pay for the premium Malwarebytes that has real-time monitoring and ESET NOD32 antivirus so I don't have to worry about this. But if your household computer is used by everyone from tots to grandparents then the latest information stealing websites should be a concern. Of course Malwarebytes would like you to pay for their solution but the article has free options too.
Fake CAPTCHA websites hijack your clipboard to install information stealershttps://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/03/fake-captcha-websites-hijack-your-clipboard-to-install-information-stealersThere are more and more sites that use a clipboard hijacker and instruct victims on how to infect their own machine.
I realize that may sound like something trivial to steer clear from, but apparently it’s not because the social engineering behind it is pretty sophisticated.
At first, these attacks were more targeted at people that could provide cybercriminals a foothold at a targeted company, but their popularity has grown so much that now anyone can run into one of them.
It usually starts on a website that promises visitors some kind of popular content: Movies, music, pictures, news articles, you name it.
Nobody will think twice when they are asked to prove they are not a robot.In my quest to gain knowledge, I have visited questionable websites since my AOL days and have learned to how to modify my NookColor using a custom CyanogenMod Android ROM, convert a graphic card from PC to MAC and run Mac OS X Tiger on an AMD Athlon64 processor so I need a tool like Malwarebytes.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/For proof of concept only (2005)
