The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial access method. The use of ClickFix, where users are tricked into manually running malicious commands to address non-existent errors, is a departure from relying on traditional methods for obtaining initial access, such as through stolen credentials acquired from initial access brokers (IABs), ReliaQuest said in a technical report published today. The second important aspect of these attacks is the use of a staged command-and-control (C2) loader built on the Deno JavaScript runtime to execute malicious payloads directly in memory. "The key takeaway here is that both entry paths lead to the same repeatable post-exploitation sequence every time,"…