ClickFix is a social engineering ploy that uses tactics like fake error messages, CAPTCHA forms, and command prompts to ...
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.
Have you seen the dreaded Blue Screen of Death on your Windows 11 PC since installing an update? You’re not alone, and Microsoft has now confirmed the problem. It did so in a support document, spotted ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Windows Latest was first to note the escalating issue, noting that ...