FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack
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May 23, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)
NDlurker
Thank you Based God
mjmas
> The attack suggests a hacker compromised some portion of BasedApparel.com
analogpixel
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.
Group_B
And once again, another prime example that we do not live in a serious country
newscracker
> 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...
breve
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.
J-Kuhn
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...
rbobby
The economy is so bad even the Director of the FBI has a side gig.