It's been a busy 24 hours in the cyber world with significant updates on the evolving "ClickFix" social engineering tactic, showing how attackers are getting creative with initial access and payload delivery.

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It's been a busy 24 hours in the cyber world with significant updates on the evolving "ClickFix" social engineering tactic, showing how attackers are getting creative with initial access and payload delivery. Let's take a look:

Evolving ClickFix Attacks: DNS Staging and Crypto Hijacks ️

- Microsoft has detailed a new DNS-based ClickFix variant where victims are tricked into running `nslookup` commands, using DNS as a stealthy staging channel for payloads like ModeloRAT. This method blends malicious activity into normal network traffic, making detection harder.
- A separate, novel ClickFix campaign is leveraging Pastebin comments and Google Docs to socially engineer cryptocurrency users into executing malicious JavaScript directly in their browser. This allows attackers to hijack Bitcoin swap transactions and redirect funds to their wallets.
- These incidents highlight the evolving nature of ClickFix, moving beyond traditional OS-level command execution to sophisticated DNS staging and direct browser manipulation for financial theft, underscoring the critical need for user awareness and robust detection of procedural trust abuse.

The Hacker News | https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/microsoft-discloses-dns-based-clickfix.html
Bleeping Computer | https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pastebin-comments-push-clickfix-javascript-attack-to-hijack-crypto-swaps/

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