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Sead Fadilpašić

Don't believe everything you read - hackers are pushing malware via media, news sites

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Hackers with an apparently novel sense of creativity have been found hiding malicious code on legitimate platforms such as video and news sites, security researchers are warning.

Cybersecurity researchers from Mandiant have published a new report detailing the campaigns. As per the writeup, a threat actor labeled as UNC4990 was holding malicious payloads in plain sight - in forum user profiles, video descriptions, and similar. 

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