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Dumbest AND most genius: Fake captchas that get the user to press windows+R, then control+C, then enter.
Dumbest because if you paid attention to what's being pasted, it's usually a call to power shell with an arbitrary script, and it's being pasted into your OS's run box which is basically like a console.
But also genius because there are tons of people that fall for it, and it's a social engineering masterpiece.
John Hammond with more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSa_wHW1pgQ
This really highlights two systemic issues: tons of people don't know what they're doing with computers and don't know basic security concepts like don't run an arbitrary script from an untrusted website, and we should probably do something about that. Which brings me to the second point that Windows is pretty ass for making it this easy. Why can you run an encoded power shell script from your run box, and why would you make bypassing the execution policy as easy as a flag in the command you're invoking? I can't imagine those have a lot of legitimate uses and aren't just being abused by criminals.
That guy doesn't look like the dinosaur guy. Not yet, anyway.