Custom ChatGPTs push ClickFix attacks to deploy RAT

What happened

Recent reporting highlighted custom chatgpts push clickfix attacks to deploy rat. Custom variants of OpenAI’s ChatGPT promoted in sponsored Google results are directing unsuspecting users to malicious sites that use ClickFix attacks to deliver malware. The threat actor is abusing the legitimate feature in the AI platform that lets users create a version of ChatGPT tailored for a specific task that combines instructions, extra knowledge, and skills.

Why it matters

This matters because AI-related risk increasingly shows up through deployment choices, interfaces, and governance gaps rather than model headlines alone. It also helps frame how defenders should think about attacker adaptation and recurring tradecraft rather than single incidents in isolation.

Assessment

The strongest signal here is the tradecraft pattern and what it says about attacker adaptation, not just the single campaign or disclosure. In practice, that means cloud-adjacent control planes, shared services, and inherited trust assumptions deserve more scrutiny than many organisations currently give them.

Recommended actions

• Check whether cloud services, connectors, or shared administrative paths create avoidable trust-boundary risk
• Map the observed activity to existing detections and threat-hunting hypotheses instead of tracking it only as narrative reporting
• Monitor follow-on reporting or primary-source updates for scope expansion, implementation guidance, or stronger enforcement signals

Further reading

• Primary source
• Source profile: Reporting