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McAfee Discovers New Phishing Campaign Targeting GitHub Users

ID: 7cc56cc6-c130-550b-ac71-fe6af7ed858e

STIX ID: report--7cc56cc6-c130-550b-ac71-fe6af7ed858e

Feed Name: KnowBe4 Blog

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2024-09-24

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

Author: Stu Sjouwerman

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McAfee researchers warn of a phishing campaign targeting GitHub contributors that uses fake CAPTCHA pages to convince users to press Windows+R and paste a clipboard-copied malicious script, allowing the ClickFix infection chain to execute malware; the report describes the attack flow and provides mitigation recommendations including user training, updated antivirus, email filtering, and disabling clipboard-based script execution.

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