Seriously? More of *This* Shit

Right, listen up. Some clowns are using a fake software update site – “FileFix” – to flog a new variant of the StealC malware. It’s not even clever. They’ve bothered to make it multilingual, targeting folks in English, Spanish, and Italian with phishing emails promising fixes for common software problems. Like anyone falls for that anymore? Apparently some do.

The emails link to a site mimicking legitimate update pages, then BAM! StealC gets downloaded. This thing scrapes cookies, passwords, autofill data, crypto wallets – the usual garbage. It also tries to grab session tokens and generally just makes a mess of things. They’re using some dodgy techniques to avoid detection too, like packing and obfuscation, but honestly, it’s all so… predictable.

The worst part? This isn’t new. FileFix has been around for ages, just constantly evolving. And people *still* click the links. Honestly, I’m starting to think natural selection needs a kick in the ass. They are using compromised SEO to get traffic too, so even searching for legitimate software updates can land you on their crap site.

Bottom line: Don’t download shit from random websites. Use official sources. Think before you click. Is that really an update for your PDF reader? No, it fucking isn’t. And for the love of all that is holy, use a password manager and MFA.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/new-filefix-variant-delivers-stealc.html

Speaking of idiots, I once had a sysadmin who thought running `rm -rf /` with `sudo` was a good idea to “clean up” the server. Yeah, that went well. Spent three days rebuilding from backups. Three *days*. Makes dealing with this StealC nonsense look like a walk in the park. Honestly, some people shouldn’t be allowed near a computer.

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