Fake CAPTCHA Scam Abuses Verification Clicks to Send Costly International Texts
2026-04-25T20:51:46Z•fcf4a4fc1c340ce91f26d99471b2f6c3357074c57bc983f9e0d58b0d0b99fa04
313 TeamAI assistantsAnthropic vendor breachBitwarden CLIBluesky outageClick2SMSClickFixDDoSDLL sideloadingDependabot supply-chainDiscordGoGra LinuxHarvester APTHexDex arrestLOTUSLITEMustang PandaShai-HuludTeamPCPback-button hijackingcmdkeyfake CAPTCHAnative Windows abuseprompt injectionregsvr32supply chain attack
What happened
Collection of April 2026 security reports covering multiple active threats and incidents: a large Click2SMS fraud campaign abusing fake CAPTCHAs and back-button hijacking to trick victims into sending costly international texts; a ClickFix variant that leverages native Windows tools (cmdkey, regsvr32) to run commands and persist while evading detection; TeamPCP supply-chain compromise using the Bitwarden CLI and GitHub Dependabot to distribute the Shai-Hulud malware and poison developer tooling; Harvester APT deploying new GoGra Linux malware (fake PDFs, Microsoft APIs) to target South Asia; a
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- hackread
- Record identifier
- fcf4a4fc1c340ce91f26d99471b2f6c3357074c57bc983f9e0d58b0d0b99fa04
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-25T20:51:46Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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