Researchers say the highly effective social engineering technique is no longer the exception for malware attacks — it's now the rule.

If you tend to copy/paste content from websites, you might be surprised to find yourself under the thrall of a ClickFix ...

Instead of waiting for you to download a bad app or a malicious file, hackers have spent the last two years tricking unsuspecting users into infecting their own computers with malware. Known as ...

Your clipboard is a major security risk that hackers love to exploit.

Threat actors are ramping up the use of ‘ClickFix’ social engineering attacks, with this tactic likely proving highly effective for malware deployment. A new analysis by Proofpoint highlighted ...

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 ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Cybercriminals keep getting better at blending into the software you use every day. Over the past few years, we've seen phishing pages that copy banking portals, fake browser alerts that claim your ...

Symantec and Carbon Black link Mistic backdoor attacks to KongTuke, using ClickFix lures and in-memory execution for stealthy ...

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