Threat actors embed malware like VIP Keylogger in images via phishing emails and Base64 encoding, leveraging .NET loaders and GenAI-written scripts to

In both campaigns, attackers hid malicious code in images they uploaded to archive[.]org, a file-hosting website, and used the same .NET loader to install their final payloads

  • unlogic@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    And it’s not the image that’s the attack vector, it’s still a vbscript in an excel document that download the image as its malware payload, decodes the malware and executes it.