How to Detect a Clubhouse Download That Is Actually Malicious
Thanks to Clubhouse, and every service now makes a clone / competitor of Clubhouse, it might feel a little lonely to be the person who can’t hang out where all growth marketers chill kids hang out.
However, strengthen your resolve because there are people out there who want to take advantage of your social grief and redirect you to what should be obvious malware in your quest to get into the Clubhouse. At least that’s what has happened on Facebook over the past few days.
According to TechCrunch , a group of cunning and crappy attackers have launched an advertisement for the fake Clubhouse PC program. When people clicked on these advertisements, people were taken to a pretty compelling recreation of the actual Clubhouse website, with a mockup of what a Clubhouse desktop app would look like.
Of course, downloading it infected your system with malware instead of giving you access to something that doesn’t really exist.
The good news is that all fake Clubhouse sites are offline and the malware no longer works – great news if you accidentally installed it on your system. However, if you’ve followed any of these links, I don’t think malware is the biggest problem you should be concerned about.
The clubhouse is a new business, and if you don’t participate in it, you might be annoyed. But don’t let your jealousy break your common sense. First, don’t click on ads to download anything, as it’s too easy to make a completely fake ad. If you want to follow the development of a specific application or service, subscribe to the company’s official channels on social networks. Thus, if the said company releases something new, you will find out about it; Believe me.
I haven’t had a chance to check the website in question before it was closed , but the urls in the ads are usually free too : joinclubhouse-pc.com . All you have to do is simply search the Internet for the word “Clubhouse” to make sure the joinclubhouse.com is a valid URL. The service is still in beta, available by invitation only, and there is no PC application to download.
Conclusion? This is the same advice we give whenever you receive an unwanted message, email, file, hyperlink, or anything else that you didn’t expect, but that the other party asks you to take action: don’t do It. Don’t open a LinkedIn job package that someone you don’t know sent you. Don’t open the “click here” hyperlink when a friend has sent you an unexpected message unless you’ve checked where you are actually going. And do not click on ads in the hope that the specified application, company or service is really behind it.