The fake update screen then encourages the user to press the Windows button together with the R key—a little-known function to open the run dialog box, a way to launch programs on a Windows PC. All ...

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

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 ...

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.

The update screen is a normal occurrence on Windows machines, so of course hackers are now manipulating it to sneak malware onto devices. The scheme, a recent iteration of a ClickFix attack, is ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released two new features in the latest version of Windows 11 that aim to reduce downtime and improve system recovery. The updates, (cumulative update KB5062660) for Windows 11, version ...