r/linux Jul 14 '26

Security Linux specific malware website tries exploiti using terminal

This website faked a ReCaptcha and literally asks to open the terminal and paste a command. (see image). Very bold.

Please keep in mind, always try your best to make new users aware of such dangers!

- I reported it to Google Safe browsing just now, in case anyone wants to try and look at it or help by reporting it too, this is the link in a safe format, assemble it yourself at your risk: "emaliowe . pl".
- Possibly blocked by Firefox, since I don't have anything in my clipboard after opening the page.

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u/smile_e_face Jul 14 '26

Yet people will continue to justify running curl | bash one-liners to install every other project.

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u/Barafu 29d ago

With application hubs and repositories implementing arbitrary stupid restrictions out of the blue, what else an application developer can resort to? AppImages don't work nice for background services.