ClickFix Campaign: Because Users Haven’t Suffered Enough This Week

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought humanity couldn’t get any more goddamn gullible, here comes the ClickFix campaign to prove me wrong yet again. Some absolute bastards have figured out that the easiest way to spread malware isn’t through sophisticated zero-days or nation-state hacking tools—it’s by weaponizing the sheer, unadulterated stupidity of your average user.

Here’s how this fresh hell works: attackers compromise legitimate websites—because apparently, web admins still haven’t heard of patching—and inject fake error messages. These aren’t just any errors; they’re convincing-looking popups telling users to run some PowerShell command to “fix” their browser issues. And because users have the critical thinking skills of a concussed lemming, they copy-paste the malicious code right into their own fucking systems. It’s not even a proper exploit; it’s just digital darwinism in action.

The payload? Something called MIMICRAT malware. Cute name, really. It’s a Remote Access Trojan that does all the usual bullshit—steals credentials, logs keystrokes, takes screenshots, and probably orders pizza on your credit card just for laughs. The clever bit is how it mimics legitimate Windows processes to hide in plain sight. Not that you’d notice, since you’re too busy clicking “Yes” on every goddamn dialog box that appears on your screen.

These compromised sites span every industry imaginable: from government portals to e-commerce to those shitty WordPress blogs your marketing team insisted on launching. The campaign’s already hit thousands of victims worldwide. Thousands. That’s thousands of people who looked at a random PowerShell command on a porn—sorry, “government”—website and thought, “Yeah, this seems legit. Let me just bypass every security warning my OS is screaming at me.”

The security researchers’ mitigation advice is the usual useless tripe: “disable PowerShell,” “train your users,” “patch your fucking servers.” Train your users? I’ve been “training” users for twenty years by randomly deleting their files when they leave their machines unlocked, and they still haven’t learned. You think a PowerPoint about phishing is going to stop Brenda from Accounting when she sees a popup saying “Your Chrome is outdated”? Christ on a bicycle, I’ve seen users type their password into a form that literally had “THIS_IS_A_PHISHING_SITE.com” in the URL bar.

The real solution? Lock every user in a Faraday cage with a typewriter and hope for the best. But no, management will just send another email. That’ll fix it.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/clickfix-campaign-abuses-compromised.html

A user actually called me yesterday, proud as punch that he’d “fixed” his browser issue using a “helpful tip” from a site. I asked him to read me the command he ran. When he got to the part about “Invoke-Expression” and a base64 string, I muted my phone and screamed into a pillow for a solid minute. Then I told him the good news: I’d be wiping his machine and he’d be spending the next week doing security awareness training—manually rewriting the company policy, by hand, in Comic Sans, while I watched and critiqued his penmanship. He said that seemed excessive. I said it was cheaper than my original plan, which involved a hammer and his keyboard.

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