ClickFix: The Attack That Turns Users Into Their Own Attackers (opens in new tab)

ClickFix has quickly become one of the most prevalent social engineering techniques on the web. The attack flips a familiar security assumption on its head: instead of slipping a malicious file past endpoint defenses, the attacker convinces the victim to run the payload themselves. No exploit. No malicious attachment. Just a user, a clipboard, and a convincing prompt. To address this growing threat, the ThreatCloud AI team built a new detection engine, now integrated into Check Point’s Gatewa...