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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 40 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I was on some website the other day and I opened the browser console for unrelated reasons. They had a giant message there that was like "STOP. If someone asked you to paste something here, you are probably going to be hacked. Do not do anything here unless you know what you're doing."

Which, admittedly, is probably good advice.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

I've seen that before. I think it s default for some js package

[–] dovahking@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Good thing the site is asking me for pressing ctrl and v instead of pasting.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

I think Facebook started doing that 15 years go. Lots of people were being scammed like that.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've opened console on some random site with far too wide article text and those asshats froze my whole browser.

[–] 712@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t get it, how does that hack/scam work?

[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Someone would say something like 'you can unlock a secret page on Facebook, just press F12 and paste this in', and the snippet would upload the victim's session token to the scammer's server. So that they can use the account to promote a crypto scam or whatever.

[–] Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If you paste code into the consol the code writer can do anything you can do on any website in the context of the current website you are on. So for example download files, capture any data, or take over and use your active session remotely.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't see a CVE for this anywhere. Security folks must be asleep at the wheel /s

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

I got hacked by pressing F12 then Ctrl+v

[–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tried to 1-up you and ended up on a list

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait, why does it think this is looking for child porn? Do I even want to know?

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

JS in Japan can mean elementary schoolgirls.

But I swear Google used to be smarter than this. It's the training data from 4chan that poisoned it's mind, surely.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Inguess we will all have to switch to TypeScript to search up JS stuff now. What comes up for "TS Fuck"

[–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of when my VP of engineering told me to be careful when trying to get to the TypeScript Playground. Googling "ts playground" brought him to a site that was absolutely not safe for work.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How'd they get JS from shougakusei? Or wait, is that like "junior school" or something, to obscure its meaning further?

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The abbreviation takes the form of XY where X is:

  • D for danshi/男子 (boys) or
  • J for joshi/女子 (girls)

And Y is:

  • S for shougakusei/小学生 (elementary schooler) or
  • C for chuugakusei/中学生 (middle schooler) or
  • K for koukousei/高校生 (high schooler)
[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ooh okay, I see, thank you. I hope this knowledge will never come in handy.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's be honest. The data from 4chan poisoned all of our minds.

Nope. Never deliberately visited.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

I have no idea and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

[–] FEIN@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

must be saying something about JS programmers

...mandatory /s

[–] melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Well... That's kinda terrifying

[–] 712@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

Because it's baked into my phone. I get what I deserve, honestly.

(() => (() => (() => (() => (() => (() => "I'm in.")())())())())())()
[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Hacking is easy, indeed.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

Mooooom, I've been hacked!

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago