While the AI itself wasn’t weaponized, the technique raises concerns about AI agents with broad system access.

Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaigns.

Heppner that documents generated through a consumer version of Anthropic’s Claude AI were not protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine under the circumstances presented.

ClickFix campaigns have adapted to the latest defenses with a new technique to trick users into infecting their own machines with malware.

Microsoft has warned users that threat actors are leveraging a new variant of the ClickFix technique to deliver malware.