Full-screen fake Windows Update or captcha tricks users into pasting and running attacker commands. Malware is steganographically stored in PNG pixels; a .NET Stego Loader extracts, decrypts, and runs ...

The ClickFix campaign disguises malware as legitimate Windows updates, using steganography to hide shellcode in PNG files and ...

ClickFix attack variants have been observed where threat actors trick users with a realistic-looking Windows Update animation in a full-screen browser page and hide the malicious code inside images.

CSOs and Windows admins should disable the ability of personal computers to automatically run commands to block the latest version of the ClickFix social engineering attacks. This advice comes from ...

ClickFix attack employs fake Windows security udpates. Updated November 27 with another Windows update warning, along with threat intelligence from the Acronis Threat Research Unit regarding the use ...