Topic

Clipboard hijacking

Attacks that write attacker-chosen text into a visitor's clipboard so that a later paste, typically into a shell or run dialog, executes a command. Also called pastejacking.

Current clusters

security1 publisher

The documentation placeholder third-party.com has served a ClickFix lure to Windows visitors since June

Manifold Security found third-party.com, a placeholder in more than 1,700 public repositories, serving a ClickFix clipboard lure to Windows browsers since at least June 2026. Static scans of the same files come back clean, because the server chooses what to send.

Publishers:thehackernews.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption62
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence60