{"id":231480,"date":"2026-02-17T01:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/microsoft-discloses-dns-based-clickfix-attack-using-nslookup-for-malware-staging"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:15:27","slug":"microsoft-discloses-dns-based-clickfix-attack-using-nslookup-for-malware-staging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/microsoft-discloses-dns-based-clickfix-attack-using-nslookup-for-malware-staging","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-discloses-dns-based-clickfix-attack-using-nslookup-for-malware-staging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft details a new ClickFix variant abusing DNS nslookup commands to stage malware, enabling stealthy payload delivery and RAT deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft details a new ClickFix variant abusing DNS nslookup commands to stage malware, enabling stealthy payload delivery and RAT deployment.<\/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-231480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231480","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=231480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}