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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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago

Haha people have been disguising files like this for literally 20 years

A good portion of images of 4chan used to have hidden archives

[-] Enoril@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago

Can’t agree more... It was an effective tactic to hide Doom.exe from my parents computer 30 years ago... So nothing really new here.

[-] 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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