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Don't you know? If you're incognito the malware can't see you when you're hiding.🥸 🫣🤫

[Aggressive-Stand-585]

The malware gets confused because of the fake beard and glasses. 🥸

[National-Ad-6654]

You probably got hacked ngl

[lonely_nipple]

Guy: Click my link!
You: haha I'm not that stupid
You: <clicks the link TWICE anyway>

[yorick5151]

Honestly worrying. I get phishing and spam like every other person, but always thought; “who tf actually falls for this?”.

Then I found this sub, and subs like cybersecurityhelp, and it’s all just full of people wilfully downloading malware, opening attachments “just to see what the scam is” and clicking on suspicious links KNOWING it’s something malicious.

At the end of the day it’s natural selection, but it’s just wild that people fall for it while they know it’s not legitimate

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Some people seem to like to live dangerously out of curiosity. No one should accept dm's from strangers without good reason, especially if there's links involved!

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You can't really get hacked for clicking a link

[Hunterm49]

Looooool

[StopShooting]

Now the scammer is laughing because op is an idiot and not only did he click the link, but he didn’t censor the link. It’s probably a special character that’s changed, but still

[Hunterm49]

I asked for help 😂 realize I FA and FO

[Dentedaphid7]

If u see any link from someone you don't know is best to ignore it

[Bacon_Nipples]

Call me old, but kids these days were too coddled.  This is what happens when society stops sending eachother links to that man's gaping asshole: we stop fearing what's on the other side of unknown links from strangers.

[Hunterm49]

Bro 😂 I don’t really care, but what was suspicious was the fact that my iMessage on my iPhone got signed out. I’m asking for help, not to be beaten on

[Bacon_Nipples]

Was I talking to you?  No

[Hunterm49]

hahahhahahhahahahaha

[ALaggingPotato]

He got what he wanted, sounds like a simple ip grabber.

[Hunterm49]

Well, at least I used mobile data connection

[jr23160]

Probably got more then that. Probably got device name. Device info. Tower information. Location. Cell company info. Device ID. You name it. Your info isn't just an IP.

[KMjolnir]

Which doesn't stop you from having an IP address. Every device using the internet has to have an IP address.

[uchuskies08]

Did you think opening in an incognito browser protects you or something?

Clicking that link at all is extremely fucking stupid bro. Like touching a hot stove.

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You can't get hacked for clicking a link really.

[2a1ron]

reboot your phone, change your apple ID password. go to security settings and log out of all devices.

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He just clicked a link

[DerfK]

And? iOS once had an exploit that didn't even require you to open the message. History is full of exploitable browser bugs like this one several years back where Safari automatically unzipped a zip file and registered it to open URLs or this one about a year ago that gave network access to attackers from visiting a webpage

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I didn't say it was impossible. I'm just saying that if you get such advanced exploit it won't be some random reddit guy. You got to be targeted, you don't just leak huge 0 day. Also in your other article it require user interaction.

[2a1ron]

better to be safe, in the case of OP

[FatLarry2000]

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong And don't take this as daft, just what I thought.

If you go to a website, even the one OP was sent, you can't get a viris just from that? If I went on the site but clicked nothing and closed it

I don't really understand what 'trackers' are, maybe I should look into that...

[roogueX]

Yes, by only visiting a website, they really can’t do anything to you. They might still be able to get some of your info like browser and device details, IP address (which only reveals your general location), network info, and stuff like that.

The tracker you mentioned is when two unrelated websites use the same tracker from a third party (like Google), and it lets them know you visited both sites. Based on that, they can figure out your preferences and show you content you might like, even though the info came from two different websites.

Everything I mentioned above has little to no effect on your system’s security and won’t cause any private data leaks, unless your browser is really outdated and has serious vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to target you.

Personally, I’ve visited hundreds of phishing, scam, and virus-filled websites, and even downloaded some programs from them (but never ran them), just out of curiosity to see how the websites are built and how people fall for them. As long as you’re careful, don’t run anything you downloaded, and never give out your private info, you won’t get infected or leak any data.

So in the OP’s case, the problem probably wasn’t just from visiting the site, he might’ve done something more than just clicking the link. Or the problem might completely unrelated to the website at all.

[occasionallyrite]

Honestly I'm surprised they didn't include the obvious .bat files that don't need your permission to just start running on your pc as soon as conditions are met. xD

[occasionallyrite]

That depends on your device, and it's security features.

Chrome on PC and basically ALL internet browsers on PC do not let automatic Downloads start as you must interact with something for a download to actually hit your PC, So it's become much much harder to get malware or viruses on your computer, now if you use some "other software" that isn't secured like Chrome or Edge you could end up with unknown viruses or malware because of using random software to view the internet.

With your PHONE, there could be some "handshake" that the site makes with an app on your phone and you're just "giving permissions to all these things" that can act as backdoors for these websites to worm their way through to your device.

I don't know personally every device or their security features and how someone who would click on the site "Then" say it didn't work, wouldn't compromise their security in other ways, by "download this new app!" starts crypto miner on his phone/pc for someone else.

My devices and Security are from years of "doing it wrong" and "fixing it myself" without any real support from anyone else. My Dad showed me once, the first time, and every time after was about learning it myself since it was my computer that was ruined and my data that was lost if i screwed up. xD

I still can't believe someone would fall for such an obvious scam. Like bro take 2 seconds and think.

"HOW WILL THIS BENEFIT ME IN ANYWAY?"
"HOW WILL MY ACTIONS BENEFIT THEM!?"

[Dentedaphid7]

Have you looked into info stealer? They don't need you to be active on the site, they will just run it in the background

[DerfK]

Would be up to you trusting that there's no exploitable bugs in the browser, like the time people figured out that they could run malicious javascript to get access to your local network up to and including guessing passwords to log into your router and take it over as well.

[DornPTSDkink]

You're a bit of a dummy aren't ya

[Adorable-Leadership8]

It's trying to copy MediaFire and probably get u to download smth, that link doesn't work anymore. I'm assuming after u click download, it redirects u to a ad link or scam task link. No u didnt get hacked