Operators of the StrRAT and Ratty remote access trojans (RAT) are running a new campaign using polyglot MSI/JAR and CAB/JAR files to evade detection from security tools. The campaign was spotted by ...

Kaspersky has released a decryption tool for the Polyglot ransomware to assist victims in recovering their files without giving in and paying a fee. Ransomware is a particularly nasty kind of malware ...

Steganography involves hiding data in something else — for example, encoding data in a picture. [David Buchanan] used polyglot files not to hide data, but to send a large amount of data in a single ...

Polyglot files The attacks start much the same as other campaigns - with a phishing email. So far, the researchers discovered two different email campaigns, one distributing an ISO with a ...

Japan’s Computer Emergency Response Team (JPCERT) discovered a new “MalDoc in PDF” malware technique that bypasses detection by hiding malicious Word files in PDFs. It is a polyglot file — a file ...