FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack
66 points by bilalq 3 hours ago | 17 comments
  • NDlurker 3 hours ago |
    Thank you Based God
    • ray_v 2 hours ago |
      What next? The trump phone shipping Chinese malware. Unthinkable!
      • jmward01 2 hours ago |
        It wouldn't be Chinese. It would be Russian.
        • wmf 2 hours ago |
          Why not both?
          • dylan604 an hour ago |
            To what point? Do we actually think Trump would use a Trump phone? Otherwise, they'd just be getting data on die hard MAGA types that have nothing to do with anything juicy
        • kibwen 2 hours ago |
          To paraphrase Hickam's dictum, a phone can have as many sources of malware as it damn well pleases.
        • Georgelemental an hour ago |
          Amazes me that, after the events of the past 3 years, so many people still think Russia is the major foreign influence on our politics.
          • dralley 5 minutes ago |
            The existence of other influences does not diminish the fact that Trump is enamored with Putin (and most "strong man" dictators generally, but Putin in particular) and it does impact his foreign policy decisions.
    • BoorishBears 36 minutes ago |
      Patel's site was just dropping sauce: overdose of sauce
  • mjmas 2 hours ago |
    > The attack suggests a hacker compromised some portion of BasedApparel.com
  • analogpixel 2 hours ago |
    For people that can't grok the title and the article like me:

    - BasedApparel.com is a website owned by a person that happens to be the FBI director now. (he owned it before he became the director if it matters)

    - The website BasedApparel.com was hacked and the hackers added a malicious click here to verify you are human section that tried to have you download a malicious payload if you were on macos.

    • bdcravens 2 hours ago |
      > he owned it before he became the director if it matters

      All the more reason that those who "serve" in the government should be required to divest of their business interests. The traffic such a site would get due to the tribalism prevalent in US politics makes it a fat target, and potentially a national security threat.

    • morkalork an hour ago |
      >happens to be

      This is not normal, other (decent) countries are not like this

    • mzajc an hour ago |
      > if you were on macos

      Did they only target macOS? The article mentions macOS a lot, but AFAIK this attack changes the instructions based on the User-Agent. I've seen the exact page with instructions for Windows and PowerShell before.

    • gensym 21 minutes ago |
      So it's not where you buy those shirts that say "Female Body Inspector?"
  • Group_B 2 hours ago |
    And once again, another prime example that we do not live in a serious country
  • newscracker an hour ago |
    > The attack seems to work by spanning various instructions that if run through macOS’s Terminal utility could steal stored credentials from Chromium-based browsers along with data from cryptocurrency wallets, placing them into a zip archive then sent to a hacker-controlled domain.

    What is it about Chromium based browsers that this attack narrows down to? Is it something technical in the ease of stealing information or just the imagined market share by the attackers? As per Cloudflare’s statistics browser share on macOS [1], it seems like Google Chrome users are a little less than two thirds of the total user base. But Safari still holds one third of the user base. Ignoring Safari seems like a poor mistake.

    [1]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20...