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AttackFeed by Joe Wagner | Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging  - The Hacker News

Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging  – The Hacker News

Posted on February 15, 2026 By [email protected] (The Hacker News)
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Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting users into running commands that carry out a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup to retrieve the next-stage payload.
Specifically, the attack relies on using the “nslookup” (short for nameserver lookup) command to execute a custom DNS lookup triggered via the Windows  –

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