Placeholder domain used in dev docs now serves ClickFix attacks

Reported by BleepingComputer (Lawrence Abrams)

Summary by Cyber Security News24 Sep 2026, 00:46 CEST

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The "third-party.com" domain, commonly used as a placeholder in developer documentation and code examples, is serving a fake Cloudflare verification page that attempts to trick Windows users into executing PowerShell commands.

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