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#6 The Hacker News general July 19, 2026 at 13:30 UTC

UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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UAC-0145, a sub-cluster of Russia's GRU-affiliated Sandworm group, is using ClickFix fake CAPTCHA lures to trick Ukrainian targets into self-installing data-stealing malware, per CERT-UA attribution. The technique bypasses traditional delivery mechanisms by socially engineering victims into executing the malware themselves, a tactic increasingly adopted by state-sponsored actors.

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