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analogpixel•about 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•about 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.

mzajc•42 minutes 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.

morkalork•about 1 hour ago
>happens to be

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

newscracker•28 minutes 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...

NDlurker•about 2 hours ago
Thank you Based God
BoorishBears•10 minutes ago
Patel's site was just dropping sauce: overdose of sauce
ray_v•about 2 hours ago
What next? The trump phone shipping Chinese malware. Unthinkable!
jmward01•about 1 hour ago
It wouldn't be Chinese. It would be Russian.
kibwen•about 1 hour ago
To paraphrase Hickam's dictum, a phone can have as many sources of malware as it damn well pleases.
Georgelemental•28 minutes 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.
wmf•about 1 hour ago
Why not both?
Group_B•about 1 hour ago
And once again, another prime example that we do not live in a serious country
mjmas•about 2 hours ago
> The attack suggests a hacker compromised some portion of BasedApparel.com