ClickFix is a social engineering ploy that uses tactics like fake error messages, CAPTCHA forms, and command prompts to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 7 2025: This story, originally published May 6, ...

A researcher has developed a new social engineering attack The attack, a variant of the existing ClickFix issue, has been called FileFix Windows users are at risk, so be on your guard A new version of ...

Windows users warned as ongoing attacks exploit CVE-2025-9491 — and there's currently no fix available from Microsoft. Updated November 2 with a statement from Microsoft regarding the newly reported ...

A new FileFix attack allows executing malicious scripts while bypassing the Mark of the Web (MoTW) protection in Windows by exploiting how browsers handle saved HTML webpages. The technique, was ...

Microsoft blamed an implementation error for amplifying the impact of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday, which ended up disrupting the company's ...