By Zak Doffman
Publication Date: 2025-12-15 22:43:00
This message is always an attack.
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There are some attacks that should never get through. Period. It should be obvious that something’s not right. But still those attacks come — and still they work. But once you know this is an attack on your Microsoft account, you can never fall victim.
You’ve likely come across ClickFix warnings — or even seen these attacks for yourself. A rogue pop-up or fake captcha tasks you with copying some text and pasting it into a Windows Command, before pressing Enter. This usually runs a malicious script, which downloads and then installs malware on the PC.
Perhaps pasting text into a system window was raising too many user hackles. ClickFix has now evolved, and it has picked up one of the latest trends in bypassing multi-factor authentication as well. Say hello to ConsentFix.
