buildOne report1 publisher Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 has phished US AI policy experts since April 2025 with a proxy that captures Microsoft session cookies and bypasses MFA. Its fix is passkeys plus out-of-band checks on unsolicited expert outreach.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Microsoft's TerminalFix writeup shows the same fake CAPTCHA lure now feeding multi-line PowerShell into Windows Terminal, where it sideloads a signed binary, pulls payloads out of PNG files and leaves a reverse tunnel behind.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 20%
- Operator
- Operator 75%
- Investor
- Investor 5%
Reality
- Evidence65
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives30
- Confidence65
buildOne report1 publisher Cloudflare's Turnstile Spin lets a coding agent install both halves of Turnstile, a service handling about three billion verifications on a typical weekday. The backend Siteverify call is the part of the agent's diff to review, since a widget alone issues tokens nobody checks.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives80
- Confidence45
Sekoia's comparison found the two ClickFix services' injected scripts near identical, while the Exvicy subscription climbed from $1,200 to $2,000 a month and its panel count reached about 80 hosts by late August.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence58
eSentire says a phishing kit called GhostCode used Microsoft's device-code flow to register three devices within 77 seconds of a victim completing MFA, and one of them stayed enrolled in Intune until it was explicitly removed.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
HP tracked the campaign from April to June 2026, in which a fake AI crypto trading agent shipped a genuine Microsoft utility to satisfy Windows reputation checks before the DLL loaded beside it stole browser wallet passwords.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher The 5% comes from one dev.to post's worked example, and it holds only if an attacker's hit rate against your login is near 0.3% and a stolen account resells near $20. At a 0.03% hit rate the same bill is half of revenue.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+52
- Incentives58
- Confidence30
buildOne report1 publisher SyllogOS layers a Cloudflare Free rate limit, Turnstile and an in-app limiter in front of one login form. The author's own published thresholds show which of the three actually caps a patient attacker.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption15
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives35
- Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher A week building an image SaaS on Cloudflare Workers produced nine failures. In the five shown in code, two come from the TanStack Start plugin's build behaviour and three from React timing and captcha logic that follow the code anywhere.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives35
- Confidence58
MayaBot only shows up in 2022, seven years into the operation, and one branch of the funnel ends in a phone call to a scam call centre. That leaves the search referral and the redirector domains as the constants worth detecting.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption54
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives45
- Confidence63
buildOne report1 publisher The chain Microsoft describes starts with a fake Cloudflare check on a compromised page and ends in a WebSocket tunnel into the LAN. Every gate that stops it sits on the endpoint or the egress path.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives40
- Confidence40
Microsoft Threat Intelligence says this ClickFix variant ends in Active Directory reconnaissance and a reverse-tunnel implant, giving a single tricked employee a route into the network.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence60