From Click to Compromise: How Social Engineering Makes Users Infect Themselves
Cyberattacks don’t always rely on sophisticated exploits – often, clever social engineering is enough to trick users into compromising their own systems.
In this live demonstration, we’ll show how attackers manipulate everyday web interactions to silently copy malicious code into the clipboard and push users into executing it.
A striking example is the imitation of a Cloudflare security check: a phishing email tempts with an important document, but the link leads to a fake CAPTCHA page. Exploiting the user’s impatience to get past the “annoying hurdle,” attackers replace a simple click with instructions to copy and run a command – a trick with devastating consequences.
Even seemingly harml ...