ClickFix is a social engineering technique that uses fake CAPTCHA pages to trick users into pasting malicious commands into Run dialogs or terminals, executing payloads in memory via LOLBins without triggering traditional AV or EDR signatures. The threat has commoditized through MaaS subscriptions ($250–$1,800), expanded its payload catalog beyond infostealers to include RATs, loaders, and rootkits, and is actively evolving with variants like CrashFix, FileFix, PromptFix, and ConsentFix. ReversingLabs released an open-source multi-condition YARA rule that detects ClickFix lures by correlating fake verification characteristics, PowerShell payload indicators, and clipboard manipulation before payload execution.
Watering Hole
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The tale of ClickFix: 5 takeaways from RL’s new threat report ClickFix doesn't attack your knowledge. It attacks your trust. ClickFix is a mature Malware-as-a-Service attack methodology that uses fake verification prompts to silently poison the user's clipboard with malicious commands, which are then pasted into Windows Run or macOS Terminal. The execution chain relies entirely on living-off-the-land binaries (PowerShell, mshta.exe, curl, rundll32.exe), making it invisible to traditional EDR and AV tooling. A specific watering hole attack on a university site delivered zuhe.dll, a Go-based RAT, using blockchain-based C2 via Ethereum smart contracts to evade infrastructure takedowns.
One Target, Two Flags | Rival Espionage Actors Converge On Pakistani Law Enforcement SentinelLABS identified sustained cyberespionage activity by suspected China-nexus and India-nexus threat actors against Pakistani law enforcement organizations from February 2024 to April 2026, with both converging on Balochistan Police. Four C2 clusters (PlugX, ShadowPad, Cobalt Strike, Remcos) were mapped to compromised infrastructure. A China-nexus actor compromised the Balochistan Police Complaint Management System (CMS), deploying custom implants (cms_plugin.exe) disguised as portal updates that delivered AsyncRAT and staged payloads from attacker-controlled servers, targeting both police personnel and citizens. The implants share a development environment (D:\codedome PDB prefix) with Chinese-language indicators, attributing them to a Chinese-speaking developer.
Coruna Respawned: Compromised art-template npm Package Leads to iOS Browser Exploit Kit A supply chain attack compromising the widely-used npm package 'art-template' was discovered delivering the Coruna exploit kit to iOS devices. The injected JavaScript acts as a sophisticated watering hole framework, utilizing extensive anti-bot fingerprinting and WebAssembly memory probes to deliver version-specific WebKit RCE exploits targeting Safari on iOS 11.0 through 17.2.
The Proliferation of DarkSword: iOS Exploit Chain Adopted by Multiple Threat Actors Google Threat Intelligence Group discovered DarkSword, a sophisticated iOS full-chain exploit leveraging six zero-day vulnerabilities to target iOS 18.4-18.7 devices. Adopted by multiple state-sponsored actors and commercial surveillance vendors, the pure-JavaScript exploit chain bypasses modern iOS mitigations to deploy data-mining payloads like GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, and GHOSTSABER.
