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Amatera Stealer

Amatera Stealer is information-stealing malware, evolved from ACR Stealer, that harvests credentials and data via ClickFix and malvertising campaigns.

Known aliases

  • ACR stealer
  • Amatera
  • Amatera infostealer

Current stories

securityConfirmed3 publishers

Attackers bought the top result for "codex macos download" and kept the payload swappable

Cato Networks says a sponsored ad outranked OpenAI's own page, sending macOS developers to a Google Sites portal whose ClickFix content lives on infrastructure Google never hosted.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 34%
Operator
Operator 58%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives35
Confidence65
securityConfirmed5 publishers

A hijacked HBO Max Reddit account pushed 108 ClickFix ads to Windows and macOS users

Hudson Rock and ADAMnetworks link the ads to an operation they call PasteSwitch, which hands Windows and macOS visitors different paste-this-command lures and swaps payloads on the backend depending on who arrives.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 29%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives50
Confidence72