this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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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 10 months 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

[–] Enoril@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months 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 10 months 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.