Bob Erdman, Associate Vice President of Research & Development at Fortra, explains in The Hacker News why ClickFix attacks continue to be an effective attack method. He notes that attackers combine psychological manipulation with trusted operating system tools to convince users to execute malicious commands themselves.
For many organizations, the issue isn’t a lack of cyber threat intelligence. Instead, internal security teams grapple with an excess of threat intelligence data, including alerts, indicators, and dashboards, yet their brand protection still falls short.
Why is that? Because merely having threat intelligence data doesn’t automatically enhance your security posture. Without the proper context, analysis, and processes, threat intelligence data remains just that, and not threat intelligence.
