ClickFix Attacks Are Spreading Fast Across Both Windows and macOS Because the Lure Is Simply 'Paste This to Fix It'
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Ars Technica reports ClickFix campaigns, which trick users into pasting an attacker-supplied command into a terminal or Run box to resolve a fake error, are now infecting Macs as well as PCs at scale. The technique works precisely because it is trivial and because legitimate software increasingly asks users to paste install commands. For anyone who publishes a curl-pipe-to-shell install line, that pattern is now the social engineering cover story.