{"id":4749,"date":"2025-06-26T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/new-filefix-method-emerges-as-a-threat-following-517-rise-in-clickfix-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:26:54","slug":"new-filefix-method-emerges-as-a-threat-following-517-rise-in-clickfix-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/new-filefix-method-emerges-as-a-threat-following-517-rise-in-clickfix-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New FileFix Method Emerges as a Threat Following 517% Rise in ClickFix Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET.<br \/>\n&#8220;The list of threats that ClickFix attacks lead to is growing by the day, including infostealers, ransomware, remote access trojans, cryptominers, post-exploitation tools, and even\u00a0The ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET.<br \/>\n&#8220;The list of threats that ClickFix attacks lead to is growing by the day, including infostealers, ransomware, remote access trojans, cryptominers, post-exploitation tools, and even\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET. &#8220;The list of threats that ClickFix attacks lead to is growing by the day, including infostealers, ransomware, remote access trojans,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/new-filefix-method-emerges-as-a-threat-following-517-rise-in-clickfix-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New FileFix Method Emerges as a Threat Following 517% Rise in ClickFix Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}