The best way to avoid ClickFix attacks is to be aware of them—question unexpected prompts skeptically, make sure your device is updated, and verify the legitimacy of prompts before you execute them.

Threat actors are abusing Pastebin comments to distribute a new ClickFix-style attack that tricks cryptocurrency users into ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze the sequence of events during a plane hijacking and how passengers increase survival odds. Trump shares video that includes racist depiction of the ...

A software update mechanism for the popular text editor Notepad++ was hijacked by suspected Chinese state-sponsored hackers, allowing them to silently redirect some users to malicious update servers, ...

The app’s servers were compromised from June through December 2025. The app’s servers were compromised from June through December 2025. is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie ...

The developer of the popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that hackers hijacked the software to deliver malicious updates to users over the course of several months in 2025. In a ...

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved [an] ...

Notepad++ users were caught in a sophisticated attack as state-sponsored hackers hijacked the utility’s update system, redirecting traffic to malicious servers. The news comes from developer Don Ho, ...

In the third episode of Hijack season 2, titled ‘Baggage,’ it is shown that Sam Nelson is not acting on his own initiative. He is being forced by some unknown agents who are taking advantage of his ...

A disgruntled ex-CEO locked his former video game studio out of its own website, knocked employees offline and triggered more than $1 million in alleged losses — then put the domain up for sale for $6 ...