ClickFix

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2026
ClickFix Campaign Abuses Trusted Websites to Deploy Psychedelic Stealer

Attackers hijacked Ukrainian websites to deliver a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA that installs Psychedelic Stealer and steals browser and crypto credentials. Psychedelic Stealer is being distributed through compromised Ukrainian business websites. Attackers injected hidden iframes into legitimate pages and used them to display a fake Cloudflare verification screen to visitors. The affected sites included a hair-treatment […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2026
ChainScript: the RAT that hides its command server inside a blockchain contract

Blackpoint uncovers ChainScript, a Node.js RAT that queries a Polygon smart contract to find and rotate its command server. Blackpoint’s Adversary Pursuit Group was chasing a ClickFix campaign spreading an unknown RAT namend ChainScript. The malicious code is a previously undocumented Node.js remote access trojan that hides its command server on a public blockchain. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2026
Brevo Supply-Chain Attack Infected Over 100,000 Websites

A Brevo supply-chain attack used compromised Cloudflare access to inject malware into websites, potentially affecting over 100,000 sites. Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, is a French cloud-based marketing and customer communication platform whose clients include eBay, Louis Vuitton and Michelin. The company was first compromised on September 10, when attackers exploited a vulnerability in its […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2026
Microsoft Tracks MacSync Stealer by Its Behavior, Not Its Domains

Microsoft tracked over 30 MacSync Stealer domains by focusing on behavioral patterns, revealing a campaign targeting passwords, keys, wallets and other data. Domain blocking is a losing game when the thing you’re blocking can register a new domain faster than you can add it to a list. That’s the exact problem Microsoft Defender Experts ran […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2026
Russian Hackers Hijack Hotel Wi-Fi to Steal Microsoft 365 Tokens

Microsoft says Russian hackers hijacked hotel Wi-Fi portals to spread malware and steal Microsoft 365 tokens from travelers. Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed CaptiveCrunch, a campaign it attributes to Storm-2945, an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, the Russian SVR-linked group also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear. Since early May 2026, Storm-2945 has been manipulating DNS […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2026
Why brand impersonation is becoming an initial access vector

Brand impersonation now drives initial access, using fake sites and apps to deliver malware, making rapid takedowns essential to disrupt attacks. Attackers recently poisoned more than 700 websites, including sites run by Harvard, Oxford, and DuckDuckGo. They used a fake Cloudflare page to trick visitors into running a ClickFix attack that installed malware. Researchers tracing […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2026
New Russian Campaign Uses Fake Webex and Zoom Installers to Deploy Starland RAT

Russian-speaking UAT-11795 spreads trojanized Zoom, Webex, and MobaXterm installers to deliver Starland RAT and the WLDR memory-only implant. Cisco Talos researchers published a detailed technical report on July 16 disclosing UAT-11795, a financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor that has been running a malware campaign against users in the United States and Europe since at least […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2026
Ghost CMS flaw abused to push ClickFix attacks on hundreds of sites

Attackers are exploiting the patched Ghost CMS flaw CVE-2026-26980, compromising over 700 unpatched sites, including universities. Threat actors are actively exploiting a security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-26980, in Ghost CMS that was fixed months ago in real attacks against unpatched websites. According to Qianxin, the campaign has already affected more than 700 sites, including well-known organizations and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2026
FBI director Kash Patel’s brand website taken offline after malware reports

FBI director site went offline after a hack used a fake Cloudflare page to trick users into running a ClickFix attack that installed malware. The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel (basedapparel[.]com) was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been compromised by hackers using it to spread malware. The malware was […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2026
New macOS Infinity Stealer uses Nuitka Python payload and ClickFix

Infinity Stealer targets macOS via fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA, using Nuitka; first such campaign per Malwarebytes. Researchers at Malwarebytes spotted a new macOS infostealer, named Infinity Stealer, using a Python payload compiled with Nuitka. It spreads via ClickFix, tricking users with fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages. “A fake verification page instructs the visitor to open Terminal, paste […]