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New Consentfix Technique Tricks Users Into Handing Over OAuth Tokens

KnowBe4, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025

Researchers at Push Security have observed a new variant of the ClickFix attack that combines 'OAuth consent phishing with a ClickFix-style user prompt that leads to account compromise.'

The technique, which the researchers call 'ConsentFix,' tricks victims into copying and pasting a localhost URL containing an authorization token, then pasting it into a phishing page.

'Authorization code flow is an OAuth 2.0 protocol for web applications to get a user's permission to access protected resources,' the researchers explain.

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