
Fake reCAPTCHA. Probably the most interesting example of exploitation of human vulnerability in the last month. This trick works for two reasons:
Various captcha services have taught people to do the strangest things: click on pictures with certain content, retype words, solve some puzzles. Many people do not even think when they see another window “prove that you are not a robot” and just do what they are asked.
Websites have the ability to write arbitrary text to the site visitor’s clipboard.
Fake captcha asks the user to launch the Run window in Windows (Win + R), then paste a malicious command from the clipboard into this window (Ctrl + V) and run the command (Enter). Very primitive, but it works! This is how attackers trick victims into running malicious PowerShell scripts and HTA applications.
John Hammond recreated the code of such a “captcha”. You can use it in anti-phishing training.