Smuggling Code: How ClickFix Uses Browser Cache to Beat Windows Run Limits
ClickFix attacks have evolved from simple social-engineering lures into highly creative delivery mechanisms that turn a user's own system into the execution environment. Recent Microsoft telemetry describes a variant that stages malicious scripts inside a victim's browser cache—disguised as innocuous PNG files—and then convinces the user to paste a short command that triggers execution of that cached payload. By hiding the payload in cache entries and later reconstituting it on…