Microsoft Warns of ClickFix Attacks Using Browser Cache to Hide Malicious Payloads

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a ClickFix campaign in which compromised websites abuse browser cache storage to conceal malicious scripts and evade common detection techniques. Rather than directly downloading a payload when the victim runs a command, the attackers pre-stage the malware in the browser cache, disguising it as a PNG image file. The approach also addresses a practical limitation of ClickFix attacks: the restricted character length available in the…

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