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

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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 2 points 1 week 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.