Watch out for this fake Windows BSOD - it's actually malware

The Windows Blue Screen (or Black Screen) of Death is typically a sign that some unrecoverable error or conflict has occurred. Now, cybercriminals are using the dreaded BSOD as a way to trick people ...

ClickFix attack uses fake Windows BSOD screens to push malware

A new ClickFix social engineering campaign is targeting the hospitality sector in Europe, using fake Windows Blue Screen of ...
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Fake Booking Emails Redirect Hotel Staff to Fake BSoD Pages Delivering DCRat

A new PHALT#BLYX campaign targets European hotels using fake Booking.com emails, ClickFix lures, PowerShell, and MSBuild to ...

Hackers use 'Blue Screen of Death' malware to target victims

This script downloads the malware and other malicious tools, disables Windows Defender, and displays the real booking website to throw the victim off. There doesn’t seem to be a specific name for the ...
Dark Reading

ClickFix Campaign Serves Up Fake Blue Screen of Death

Threat actors are using the social engineering technique to deploy the DCRat remote access Trojan against targets in the hospitality sector.
SecurityWeek

Sophisticated ClickFix Campaign Targeting Hospitality Sector

A sophisticated ClickFix campaign is targeting entities in the hospitality sector to infect them with the DCRat remote access ...

Securonix warns of malware campaign targeting hospitality sector

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Securonix Inc. is warning of an ongoing malware campaign targeting the ...

Tips for a smoother smartphone upgrade

Upgrading to a new smartphone is exciting, but it comes with some trepidation as it pertains to transferring your personal ...
Security Boulevard

Malware Campaign Abuses Booking.com Against Hospitality Sector

Securonix is detailing a multi-stage campaign that starts with a bogus Booking.com message that runs through a ClickFix technique and a fake Blue Screen of Death before dropping the DCRat malware that ...
Computing

Europe's hospitality sector targeted by fake 'blue screen' cyberattack

Russian cybercriminals are suspected of targeting Europe's hospitality industry with a malware campaign that disguises itself ...
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Prosecutor calls Stanford sit-in ‘attempted extortion’ as trial begins

Attorneys delivered opening statements on Friday in the trial of five defendants who broke into the Stanford president’s ...

Dangerous WebRAT malware now being spread by GitHub repositories

Cybersecurity researchers Kaspersky said they found 15 malicious repositories hosted on GitHub. These repositories, apparently crafted with the help of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), ...