30 September 2026 - 07:51
Category: IT Fail
Brilliant, Custom GPTs Lure Our Users
Crooks are using custom ChatGPT bots to impersonate products and trick users into running PowerShell commands. Users will paste absolutely anything into a terminal.
Source: SecurityWeek
The Full Story
Here we go again, watching malicious actors weaponise custom ChatGPT setups to impersonate legitimate tools and lure gullible users into pasting PowerShell commands. Those poor souls readily fall for fake technical fixes because reading warnings is apparently too much effort. Keeping our infrastructure intact from this ClickFix nonsense requires somehow stopping people from blindly pasting lethal terminal commands off the internet. Why do we even bother setting up security policies when a chatbot can undo them all?