FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

analogpixel 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For people that can't grok the title and the article like me:

- BasedApparel.com is a website owned by a person that happens to be the FBI director now. (he owned it before he became the director if it matters)

- The website BasedApparel.com was hacked and the hackers added a malicious click here to verify you are human section that tried to have you download a malicious payload if you were on macos.

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bdcravens 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> he owned it before he became the director if it matters

All the more reason that those who "serve" in the government should be required to divest of their business interests. The traffic such a site would get due to the tribalism prevalent in US politics makes it a fat target, and potentially a national security threat.

	▲	wheelerwj an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Im a big fan of divesting in these scenarios but i dont know how that would help in this scenario specifically. His current role and his previous ownership made the site a target, but it would be a target regardless of who owns it currently.

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gensym 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So it's not where you buy those shirts that say "Female Body Inspector?"

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mzajc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> if you were on macos

Did they only target macOS? The article mentions macOS a lot, but AFAIK this attack changes the instructions based on the User-Agent. I've seen the exact page with instructions for Windows and PowerShell before.

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zombot 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has it been hacked? I mean, Trump's accomplices running conspicuous scams would not exactly be a surprise. They are all immune from prosecution, after all.

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morkalork 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>happens to be

This is not normal, other (decent) countries are not like this

	▲	zombot 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sarcasm is hard to spot in raw text.

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breve 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't worry about it. Kick back and relax with some Kash Patel branded bourbon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/kash-patel-fbi-...

You'll feel better in no time.

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J-Kuhn 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh, I also got one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:CreateAcc...

> To protect the wiki against automated account creation, we kindly ask you to answer the question that appears below (more info): What is the output of: LC_ALL=C pacman -V|sed -r "s#[0-9]+#$(date -u +%m)#g"|base32|head -1

Wait, they really do that...

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alright2565 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If you can't understand that command before pasting it in your terminal, then you probably shouldn't be editing the Arch Linux wiki.

	▲	PlasmaPower an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They have a similar command for the Arch Linux forum, where beginners are encouraged to ask questions

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newscracker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The attack seems to work by spanning various instructions that if run through macOS’s Terminal utility could steal stored credentials from Chromium-based browsers along with data from cryptocurrency wallets, placing them into a zip archive then sent to a hacker-controlled domain.

What is it about Chromium based browsers that this attack narrows down to? Is it something technical in the ease of stealing information or just the imagined market share by the attackers? As per Cloudflare’s statistics browser share on macOS [1], it seems like Google Chrome users are a little less than two thirds of the total user base. But Safari still holds one third of the user base. Ignoring Safari seems like a poor mistake.

[1]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20...

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NDlurker 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you Based God

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ray_v 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What next? The trump phone shipping Chinese malware. Unthinkable!

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jmward01 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It wouldn't be Chinese. It would be Russian.

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kibwen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To paraphrase Hickam's dictum, a phone can have as many sources of malware as it damn well pleases.

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tdeck 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't be ridiculous, it would be Israeli.

	▲	zombot 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They make the best, no doubt, but would the Trump phone have the best of anything?

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Georgelemental 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Amazes me that, after the events of the past 3 years, so many people still think Russia is the major foreign influence on our politics.

	▲	dralley 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The existence of other influences does not diminish the fact that Trump is enamored with Putin (and most "strong man" dictators generally, but Putin in particular) and it does impact his foreign policy decisions and those of his administration (Hegseth straight up canceled weapons shipments to Ukraine for 2 weeks in the aftermath of the Oval Office meeting thinking it would please the boss).
	▲	SV_BubbleTime 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Let’s add to it that people are still hyping up Trump/Russia connection. I think Hilary Clinton is a terrible human being, but props on her play there. Truly both sad and insanely effective.

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wmf 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not both?

	▲	dylan604 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To what point? Do we actually think Trump would use a Trump phone? Otherwise, they'd just be getting data on die hard MAGA types that have nothing to do with anything juicy

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BoorishBears 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Patel's site was just dropping sauce: overdose of sauce

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Group_B 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And once again, another prime example that we do not live in a serious country

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mjmas 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The attack suggests a hacker compromised some portion of BasedApparel.com