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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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I just saw this and felt I should share it. I'm sure most people here wouldn't fall for it but it can't hurt to make sure 👍

Edit: I just wanted to add, I have no idea what this tried to copy. I'm using Firefox on Linux which is perhaps why it didn't make it to my clipboard 🤷

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

URL?

Knowing what it's doing would be useful and people who have the ability to reverse engineer this can work on a fix or filter.

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

motorandwheels(dot)com

  • I think it would be best if it isn't clickable

I've also noticed, it doesn't always come up but let me know if it does for you.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It didn't show up when I first visited it, but it did after a hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R)

I didn't copy anything to the clipboard, though.

Firefox 137.0 (64-bit) on Linux 6.8.0-57-generic on Mint 22.1

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for that. I also didn't know about that shortcut until now. It will be very helpful 👍😁

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 20 hours ago

Happy to read it, good luck!

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm confused. Is this a malicious website that you came across? Is this website normally legit? Was this an ad popup? Do you use ublock origin? It would be great if you gave a little more information here. Otherwise we don't really know what you were doing or what we should avoid. If this is a real legit website then my guess is this was an ad popup.

Edit: virustotal for that website is clean. So either this was a popup (you should use ublock origin) or your PC is infected with malware and you may want to take action (idk for sure, just a guess.) Another possibility is that website was compromised.

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never visited the site before so I just assumed it was just malicious, but as @zdanger said, it might be a hijacked legit site.

I do use uBlock. It also didn't 'feel' like an ad. I now expect the site was compromised as you suggested.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 day ago

Yea. If others can confirm it then seems like the site was hacked

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

For me accessing that site in Firefox on Windows (even with uBO) does trigger the scam popup, but in any other browser I tried (Edge, Chrome, FF dev edition), it doesn't. Kinda interesting.

The popup does not manage to add anything to the clipboard. There are tons of JS errors in the console, so luckily the thing seems to be pretty broken right now.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wonder if this is an issue on Linux only maybe? Not seeing anyone here on Windows confirming this.

Edit: nvm someone on windows confirmed it