Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Hackers are targeting Windows machines using the ZIP file concatenation technique to deliver malicious payloads in compressed archives without security solutions detecting them. [...]

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[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Literally part of my job is to download and install packages from vendors and some of them do this with tar.gz's to make them fit in 4Gb chunks. Their instructions are to cat all the files.

this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024

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