Security News > 2025 > May > Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Distribute Vidar and StealC Malware via ClickFix Technique
2025-05-23 17:24
The malware known as Latrodectus has become the latest to embrace the widely-used social engineering technique called ClickFix as a distribution vector. "The ClickFix technique is particularly risky because it allows the malware to execute in memory rather than being written to disk," Expel said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "This removes many opportunities for browsers or security
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