This is always an attack — shut down and restart your PC immediately.
There are some attacks that should never get through. Period. It should be obvious that something’s not right. But still those attacks come — and still they work. But once you know this is an attack on your Microsoft account, you can never fall victim.
warnings — or even seen these attacks for yourself. A rogue pop-up or fake captcha tasks you with copying some text and pasting it into a Windows Command, before pressing Enter. This usually runs a malicious script,Perhaps pasting text into a system window was raising too many user hackles. ClickFix has now evolved, and it has picked up one of the latest trends in bypassing multi-factor authentication as well. Say hello to ConsentFix.explains that this new technique “tricks people into giving attackers access to their Microsoft accounts. The method uses a browser-native prompt that persuades victims to copy and paste a link. Once the link is submitted, attackers can get access without needing a password or multi-factor authentication.” In short, you log into your Microsoft account or you’re already logged in, which results in a URL that includes your session’s security authentication. “If you’re already logged into the app in your browser, you don’t even need to supply creds, or pass an MFA check — meaning it effectively circumvents phishing-resistant auth like passkeys too.”Push Security says “you can think of this as a browser-native ClickFix attack that phishes an OAuth token on a target app by getting the victim to copy and paste a URL containing OAuth key material into a phishing page. The campaign looks to be specifically targeting Microsoft accounts by abusing the Azure CLI OAuth app.” When you paste the URL, you give the attacker “an OAuth connection between Microsoft account and the attacker’s Azure CLI instance.”Push Security says the attack starts with a “compromised webpage via Google Search. The vast majority of the sites we’ve seen are legitimate, compromised websites with high domain reputation that are easily findable via search engines.”My advice here is the same as with ClickFix. Do not copy and paste text if challenged to do so in a message or pop-up. Ever. This is never legitimate. If you keep that in mind, the next ClickFix or ConsentFix or AnyFix can’t strike you out. “ConsentFix is a dangerous evolution of ClickFix,” Push Security says. “The attack happens entirely inside the browser context, removing one of the key detection opportunities for ClickFix. Delivering the lure via a Google Search watering hole attack completely circumvents email-based anti-phishing controls.”
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