Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

By Lawrence Abrams · BleepingComputer · Friday, 9 October 2026 at 20:31 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]

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