The inception bar: a new phishing method

Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by chicob on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:39AM (#19770817)

Someone I know would constantly leave a macbook unlocked, so I prepared a script that would turn down the volume, whisper the owner's name, open weird sfw pictures online and other mildly annoying things, but not very often (like once a week).

This was meant as a joke, and I never actually went through with it. I know the person very well but it still felt douchebaggy. But the idea was to make an app file, save it to some seemingly legitimate folder, and adding it to the autostart list.

The trick to hide the thing was to drag and drop Safari's logo onto it, and naming the app "Safan": it almost goes unnoticed when checking the Activity Monitor, thanks to the system font's proportions.

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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by oedmarap on Sunday April 28, 2019 @08:54AM (#19770897)

Blurred lines aside, for posterity you could name it "Safari Auto-Update Utility" and use an app icon that has the Safari logo coupled with a cog wheel or so.

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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by chicob on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:09AM (#19770960)

I thought of something like that, but then the user could kill it as a precaution since an auto-update utility or any other secondary application can be temporarily disabled. Killing "Safari", on the other hand, would terminate everything the user's currently doing in it.

I guess I could have named it Disk Memory Manager or some other important-sounding thing.

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Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method by washadjeffmad on Sunday April 28, 2019 @09:26AM (#19771026)

'Ghost of Steve Jobs' then.

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