{"id":11732,"date":"2026-03-31T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/deepload-malware-uses-clickfix-and-wmi-html\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:04:52","slug":"deepload-malware-uses-clickfix-and-wmi-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/deepload-malware-uses-clickfix-and-wmi-html\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepLoad Malware Uses ClickFix and WMI Persistence to Steal Browser Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    DeepLoad Malware Uses ClickFix and WMI Persistence to Steal Browser Credentials<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a way to distribute a previously undocumented malware loader referred to as DeepLoad.<br \/>\n&#8220;It likely uses AI-assisted obfuscation and process injection to evade static scanning, while credential theft starts immediately and captures passwords and sessions even if the primary loader is blocked,&#8221; ReliaQuest researchers Thassanai<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/03\/deepload-malware-uses-clickfix-and-wmi.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeepLoad Malware Uses ClickFix and WMI Persistence to Steal Browser Credentials A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a way to distribute a previously undocumented malware loader referred to as DeepLoad. &#8220;It likely uses AI-assisted obfuscation and process injection to evade static scanning, while credential theft starts immediately and captures passwords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-11732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}