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Anthony Spadafora

Macs under threat from thousands of hacked sites spreading malware — how to stay safe

MacBook Pro 2021 (16-inch) on a patio table.

Verifying your identity online to access certain sites has become increasingly common in recent years. However, hackers have devised a clever way to weaponize Google’s reCAPTCHA and other verification methods to infect vulnerable PCs and now Macs with malware.

As reported by Cyber Security News, security researchers at BadByte have identified more than 2,800 hacked websites that are being used in a new ClickFix campaign designed to infect the best MacBooks with the dangerous password-stealing Atomic Stealer malware.

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