Tag: ClickFix Phishing Attacks

Large-Scale ClickFix Phishing Attacks Target Hotel Systems with PureRAT Malware
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Large-Scale ClickFix Phishing Attacks Target Hotel Systems with PureRAT Malware

Cybersecurity experts have highlighted a large-scale phishing operation aimed at the hospitality sector, which entices hotel managers to ClickFix-like pages and collects their login information through the use of malware such as PureRAT. Sekoia stated, "The assailant's method of operation involved leveraging a hacked email account to dispatch harmful communications to various hotel businesses. This campaign makes use of spear-phishing emails masquerading as Booking.com to direct victims to harmful websites, utilizing the ClickFix social engineering tactic to launch PureRAT. The campaign aims to pilfer credentials from compromised systems that provide threat actors with illicit access to booking services such as Booking.com or Expedia. These credentials are either traded on cybercrim...
Hackers Exploit WordPress Sites to Power Next-Gen ClickFix Phishing Attacks
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Hackers Exploit WordPress Sites to Power Next-Gen ClickFix Phishing Attacks

Researchers studying cybersecurity are drawing attention to a dangerous effort that uses malicious JavaScript injections to attack WordPress websites in an attempt to divert people to dubious websites. In an investigation released last week, Sucuri researcher Puja Srivastava claimed that malware-driven material, such as phony Cloudflare verification, is inserted into websites. The website security firm claimed that after one of its clients' WordPress websites displayed questionable third-party JavaScript to site visitors, it launched an investigation and discovered that the attackers had made malicious changes to a file connected to the theme ("functions.php"). Probably in an effort to avoid discovery, the code added to "functions.php" includes references to Google Ads. However, ...