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ClickFix: The Attack That Turns Users Into Their Own Attackers

calendar_today June 25, 2026 person lizwu@checkpoint.com domain checkpoint

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.

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