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| 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
| Security Operation Center, Hacking Topics |
Attackers are altering ClickFix tactics to hide payloads until after the victim has already performed the trusted action, as two recent examples showcase.
ClickFix has become a prominent social engineering technique in the past few years, due largely to how it exploits human problem-solving tendencies as well as trust in software. A typical ClickFix attack presents victims with a fake technical problem or verification prompt, then instructs them to paste and execute a command that has often already been copied to their clipboard. More here
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A process parameter-poisoning technique evades EDR by injecting code into process initialization structures without usin… More...
Organizations don't need better vulnerability scanners; they need to know who owns their assets and has the authority and capacity to actually fix them. More...
Threat actors are now hiding payloads by using DNS TXT records and browser cache pre-fetching, making it tougher to spot… More...
A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information and benefits from having Google's stamp of approval de… More...
The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure … More...
Microsoft seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains as part of a coordinated disruption effort against a phi… More...
