Huntress announced Attack Reduction, a new capability in Huntress Managed ESPM (Early Access) that disables the "Windows key + R" shortcut for users who never use the Run dialog, aiming to break the most common ClickFix attack chain. The post opens with an attempted fake-CAPTCHA lure that targeted a Huntress employee on a spoofed airport …
Forescout's Vedere Labs has documented ROMULUS, a previously unknown malware delivery platform used in ClickFix campaigns, and new delivery techniques for loaders tied to Vice Society ransomware activity. The server hosting the ROMULUS panel was found during an incident investigation, and six IP addresses exposed the same authentication i…
ClickFix and its variants (FileFix, InstallFix, TerminalFix, ConsentFix) are now the most common browser-based attack technique seen by Push Security. They averaged 52% of Push detections through Q2 2026 and reached 67% in August, overtaking AiTM and device code phishing. The newest lures impersonate AI tools: ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public …
Siemens warned customers that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS 8.4 under v4.0, 6.7 under v3.1; CWE-427 uncontrolled DLL search path), a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, to distribute malware. The activity is attributed to the Romulus multi-platform ClickFix campaign. Romulus is a server hos…
On October 20, 2026, Google announced new Chrome defenses for users of Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection. They include a warning against ClickFix social engineering, in which suspicious commands copied by the user are scrubbed of personal information and sent to Safe Browsing for analysis (thehackernews.com, gbhackers.com, securityweek.co…
A ClickFix malvertising campaign uses sponsored Google results for "amazon business" to lure victims to a fake Amazon login page on Google Sites and then to a fake CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA pastejacks a command into the clipboard that the victim is told to run in the Windows Run box. The command abuses the legacy finger.exe utility to fetch a …
F5 Labs published its 2026 cybersecurity predictions and scored its 2025 forecasts at 6.5/8, by its own assessment. The 2025 review cites AI-powered botnets, attacks on AI model APIs, AI side-channel attacks on cryptography, APT use of hacktivist personas, and expanded Roskomnadzor powers to isolate or reroute Russian internet traffic fro…