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",[2001],{"type":248},{},{"nodeType":250,"value":2004,"marks":2005,"data":2006},"The embedded video, countdown timer, and counter for “users verified in the last hour” all serve to increase the sense of authenticity, and put extra pressure on the victim to complete the check. ",[],{},{"nodeType":259,"data":2008,"content":2009},{},[2010],{"nodeType":250,"value":2011,"marks":2012,"data":2013},"There are a couple of extra things happening under the hood here, too:",[],{},{"nodeType":310,"data":2015,"content":2016},{},[2017,2027],{"nodeType":289,"data":2018,"content":2019},{},[2020],{"nodeType":259,"data":2021,"content":2022},{},[2023],{"nodeType":250,"value":2024,"marks":2025,"data":2026},"The page is adapting to the device that you’re visiting from, serving up instructions specific to the user’s Mac (increasingly common as ClickFix expands to support different Operating Systems).",[],{},{"nodeType":289,"data":2028,"content":2029},{},[2030],{"nodeType":259,"data":2031,"content":2032},{},[2033],{"nodeType":250,"value":2034,"marks":2035,"data":2036},"The page is automatically copying the malicious code to the user’s clipboard via JavaScript (which we see in 9/10 cases).",[],{},{"nodeType":259,"data":2038,"content":2039},{},[2040],{"nodeType":250,"value":2041,"marks":2042,"data":2043},"For the past decade or more, user awareness has focused on stopping users from clicking links in suspicious emails, downloading risky files, and entering their username and password into random websites. 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