This was how my cousin lost a lot of money on his PC in 2021, it was a clipboard malware attack, it looks obviously like a scam because that's not how a real captcha looks like, you are to select some images to match a image, it is always image related.

Every attacks been carried out on PC starts with the user themselves, they are been asked for permission and the user give them without realising it, the three available option on the image that OP dropped are all the same attack.

I know that I am still learning but I am not ready to learn the hard way while losing assets to hackers again, since the day I get my hardware wallet I don't need to worry about any attacks on PC, if you are still a user always be on the watch out.

Hackers and scammers don't rest until the find their victims.

That malware embedded on captcha is I think the latest attempt done by those hackers. If we are not really aware of it then provably that we might get caught up by this thing. Its unnoticeable when they do that especially that lots of site needs to do captcha before you can log in on their site and lots of people might fall for that especially if they are not paying attention on what they are doing.

I guess much better for people to Norton Antivirus Plus and Bitfender Antivirus since I think this two have malware detection.

We really need to be suspicious on things unusual to us and also always check our wallet address copied so that we can avoid getting a problem with this malwares.

I emphasize the importance of always checking the sending address, at least the first and last 4 digits of an address, because even if you use hardware wallets, you are susceptible to this attack, so always check all the details of the transaction on the display of your signing device.

Always match the sending address with the sender, from where the address was copied, scan the address via QR code if possible, to avoid using the clipboard, which can be attacked if the machine has this malware.

If you are about to send a significant amount of funds and still feel uncomfortable, send a small fraction first to make sure everything is in order and then send the remaining funds, while carefully checking all characters of the destination address.

This is one of the only ways to have your funds stolen even with hardware wallets through social engineering.


Do you think clipboard hijacking malware can be compared to the category of spyware? Since he is waiting for an address to be copied to exchange for the scammers' registered addresses?

Often, due to rush and anxiety, people speed through steps clicking OK,Next... and end up leaving security gaps in their computer without even realizing it. Haste is the enemy of perfection.

Even though it seems like this malware has been around for quite some times but to be honest the method the hackers are pulling seems a little stupid. I mean what if you were a mobile user or a mac user, lol..people might be thinking what the fuck! I don't have any windows keys! Not trying to make fun, or mock others, but literally who falls for scams such as this are dumbwitted. I wonder how many would actually fall for this scam.

Anyway thank you for sharing this, I'm sure many newbies would be careful after reading this..