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EtherHiding

Technique of hiding malware payloads or configs in public blockchain smart contracts, so compromised sites can retrieve them from an unseizable ledger.

Current stories

securityConfirmed3 publishers

Fake Cloudflare checks on more than 100 hacked sites trick Ukrainians into installing Lunex Stealer

CERT-UA says attackers planted fake Cloudflare checks on more than 100 legitimate websites to get visitors to install Lunex Stealer themselves. Ontinue says its browser components can keep file access after the stealer is deleted, so cleanup has to reach the browsers.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 62%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives25
Confidence70
securityOne report1 publisher

ClickFix crews are staging the second stage inside Binance Smart Chain smart contracts

Blackpoint's SOC worked an incident where a fake captcha on the victim company's own WordPress site ran a hidden PowerShell downloader, and the campaign's later stage sits in a blockchain contract no provider can pull.

Publishers:blackpointcyber.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption30
Hype gap+15
Incentives65
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

SloppyRAT parks its backup C2 channel on the Polygon blockchain

Zscaler's ThreatLabz found SloppyRAT in June 2026 at the end of a ClickFix chain whose live hosts are all ordinary domains, with a Polygon JSON-RPC lookup held in reserve for when those domains stop answering.

Publishers:zscaler.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption18
Hype gap+18
Incentives60
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Talos ties a fake Google CAPTCHA to a DLL executing from a remote WebDAV share

Cisco Talos found the loader running from a WebDAV UNC path at a Ukrainian government organisation in April 2026, delivered by a ClickFix prompt whose JavaScript was stored on BNB Smart Chain. The primary payload is Amatera stealer.

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption38
Hype gap−12
Incentives55
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

5,400 hacked WordPress and PrestaShop sites pull their ClickFix payload from a BNB testnet contract

The contract cannot be deleted. Every injected site has to reach a public BNB Smart Chain testnet RPC endpoint to read it. Netskope recommends blocking that pool. The payload has already changed once.

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption64
Hype gap+14
Incentives58
Confidence55