Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed me a virus captcha, What now?

Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

I encountered a fake Google captcha on Crooked Timber that prompted me to run a malicious PowerShell command via my clipboard. After recognizing the scam and verifying the dangerous script with an LLM, I am left wondering how to better protect myself from such sophisticated social engineering attacks in the future.