{"id":242141,"date":"2026-08-04T01:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-doublecup-clickfix-service-hides-malware-in-browser-cache-images"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:16:25","slug":"new-doublecup-clickfix-service-hides-malware-in-browser-cache-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/new-doublecup-clickfix-service-hides-malware-in-browser-cache-images","title":{"rendered":"New DOUBLECUP ClickFix service hides malware in browser cache images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-doublecup-clickfix-service-hides-malware-in-browser-cache-images2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by victims\u2019 browsers, ultimately delivering CountLoader to Windows and macOS devices and a new remote access trojan named DeviceManager to Windows systems.<\/p>\n<p>SOCRadar\u2019s Threat Research Unit says DOUBLECUP has operated since early June 2026, providing customers with licenses and a Go-based Windows tool for creating malicious campaigns and generating the code operators add to their websites.<\/p>\n<p>The service handles much of the infrastructure required to conduct the attacks, including hosting the steganographic PNG images, managing session and signal endpoints, providing encryption keys, and automatically rebuilding payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by victims\u2019 browsers, ultimately delivering CountLoader to Windows and macOS devices and a new remote access trojan named DeviceManager to Windows systems. SOCRadar\u2019s Threat Research Unit says DOUBLECUP has operated since early June 2026, providing customers with licenses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242141","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=242141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}