Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

According to a post on Hacker News, a Crooked Timber visitor encountered a social engineering attack disguised as a Google CAPTCHA. After clicking the captcha, they received fake verification instructions to press Win-R and paste clipboard contents — which held an obfuscated PowerShell command designed to download and execute code from a remote server. Recognizing the threat, the user asked the community for advice on protecting against similar attacks in the future.

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