Tiktok channel cheating people into running powershell and unknowingly downloading malware.

FreedomEclipse · Mar 13, 2025

This is some crazy stuff. The extent that some folks go through to cheat you into installing malware.

dirtyferret · Mar 13, 2025

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cvaldes · Mar 13, 2025

There is nothing new about this type of malicious activity. It's just that it's headline-worthy TikTok today. We have heard this story tens of thousands of times.

Forty years ago it was probably USENET. Twenty years ago it was probably some vBulletin powered Q&A forum.

There are always weaselly people trying to trick gullible dimwits into doing dumb stuff.

Ten years from now it will probably be happening elsewhere, not TikTok but some other new online hangout where kids go. Technological advancements do not give people common sense.

In 1995, if you did something really stupid, most people wouldn't have a clue.

The bigger problem is that doing stupid stuff in 2025 has monetization potential (online views). You can do really stupid stuff online (like eating detergent pods) and get paid well for it. And many of the Internet's halfwit population are okay with that.

Like P.T. Barnum said...

Assimilator · Mar 13, 2025

This is actually the perfect scam because people using TikTok are several orders of magnitude less intelligent than an average human.

Epaminombas · Mar 13, 2025

There are many commands to activate Windows and Office that install viruses and people think they are taking advantage.

The detail is that if Windows Defender is active it will warn that it is a virus.
But people disable Defender because they think they are smarter than AV and Windows and they get screwed.

Bill_Bright · Mar 13, 2025

What I find somewhat disturbing is that is that this type activity from TikTok is not surprising. But what I find totally disturbing is that so many people don't and won't care.

Carillon · Mar 13, 2025

Assimilator said:
This is actually the perfect scam because people using TikTok are several orders of magnitude less intelligent than an average human.

id argue they are the average human

mb194dc · Mar 13, 2025

Stupid is as stupid does...

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Tiktok channel cheating people into running powershell and unknowingly downloading malware.

~Technological Technocrat~