{"id":229868,"date":"2026-01-27T02:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-clickfix-attacks-abuse-windows-app-v-scripts-to-push-malware"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:21:57","slug":"new-clickfix-attacks-abuse-windows-app-v-scripts-to-push-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-clickfix-attacks-abuse-windows-app-v-scripts-to-push-malware","title":{"rendered":"New ClickFix attacks abuse Windows App-V scripts to push malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-clickfix-attacks-abuse-windows-app-v-scripts-to-push-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new malicious campaign mixes the ClickFix method with fake CAPTCHA and a signed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) script to ultimately deliver the Amatera infostealing malware.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft App-V script acts as a living-off-the-land binary that proxies the execution of PowerShell through a trusted Microsoft component to disguise the malicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Application Virtualization is an enterprise Windows feature that allows applications to be packaged and run in isolated virtual environments without being actually installed on the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new malicious campaign mixes the ClickFix method with fake CAPTCHA and a signed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) script to ultimately deliver the Amatera infostealing malware. The Microsoft App-V script acts as a living-off-the-land binary that proxies the execution of PowerShell through a trusted Microsoft component to disguise the malicious activity. Microsoft Application Virtualization is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229868","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=229868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}