These errors prompt the visitor to click a button to copy a PowerShell “fix” into the clipboard and then paste and run it in a Run: dialog or PowerShell prompt.

“Although the attack chain requires significant user interaction to be successful, the social engineering is clever enough to present someone with what looks like a real problem and solution simultaneously, which may prompt a user to take action without considering the risk,” warns a new report from ProofPoint.

I’m sure this works, else they wouldn’t do it, but FFS, somebody would have had to have been living under a rock to not know by now that executing random code is a bad idea.

And yet, people still fall prey to the gift card scams, so what do I know?