{"id":211814,"date":"2025-04-19T02:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/interlock-ransomware-gang-pushes-fake-it-tools-in-clickfix-attacks"},"modified":"2025-04-19T02:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:25:14","slug":"interlock-ransomware-gang-pushes-fake-it-tools-in-clickfix-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/interlock-ransomware-gang-pushes-fake-it-tools-in-clickfix-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Interlock ransomware gang pushes fake IT tools in ClickFix attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interlock-ransomware-gang-pushes-fake-it-tools-in-clickfix-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Interlock ransomware gang now uses ClickFix attacks that impersonate IT tools to breach corporate networks and deploy file-encrypting malware on devices.<\/p>\n<p>ClickFix is a social engineering tactic where victims are tricked into executing dangerous PowerShell commands on their systems to supposedly fix an error or verify themselves, resulting in the installation of malware.<\/p>\n<p>Though this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fake-google-chrome-errors-trick-you-into-running-malicious-powershell-scripts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> ClickFix has been linked to ransomware infections, confirmation about Interlock shows an increasing trend in these types of threat actors utilizing the tactic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interlock ransomware gang now uses ClickFix attacks that impersonate IT tools to breach corporate networks and deploy file-encrypting malware on devices. ClickFix is a social engineering tactic where victims are tricked into executing dangerous PowerShell commands on their systems to supposedly fix an error or verify themselves, resulting in the installation of malware. Though [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}