{"success":true,"data":{"id":"fake-clickfix-captcha-powershell-paste-scam","label":"ClickFix / FakeCaptcha PowerShell paste scam — email disguises as Cloudflare/Google/reCAPTCHA verification and instructs the victim to press Win+R or open PowerShell/terminal and paste a clipboard-injected command, silently running mshta/PowerShell to install stealer malware (CISA-flagged Q4 2025 → 2026)","description":"Email disguised as a Cloudflare / Google / reCAPTCHA / Turnstile verification challenge that instructs the recipient to press Win+R (or open PowerShell / terminal) and paste a \"verification code\" — which is actually a clipboard-injected mshta.exe or PowerShell one-liner that downloads and executes stealer malware (Lumma, Vidar, DanaBot, AsyncRAT). CISA flagged ClickFix / FakeCaptcha as a top-5 initial-access technique in late 2025; volumes tripled quarter-over-quarter into Q1 2026. No legitimate captcha on the web requires running a command in PowerShell — an instruction to paste anything into a terminal is, by construction, a compromise attempt.","tier":"danger","category":"phishing","isThin":false}}