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ClickFix finds a backup plan in PySoxy proxy chains

ClickFix finds a backup plan in PySoxy proxy chains
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ClickFix, a one-shot social engineering technique that tricks victims into executing malicious workflows disguised as fixes to technical issues in their systems, has got a persistence upgrade. In a one-off instance, ReliaQuest researchers have spotted an intrusion chain using scheduled tasks, PowerShell-based command-and-control (C2), and a unique abuse of the decade-old open-source proxy tool PySoxy . As the researchers pointed out in a blog post , PySoxy is giving attackers encrypted proxy acc

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