Two fake spellchecker packages on PyPI hid a Python RAT in dictionary files, activating malware on import in version 1.2.0.

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Imagine if you could hide a secret message within a photo, and no one could tell by just looking at it. This is the magic of steganography—a powerful technique that allows us to embed secret ...

Base64 encoding is a common method to encode binary data into an ASCII string format, making it easier to transmit data over networks that only support text. This can include embedding image data in ...

Ars Technica was recently used to serve second-stage malware in a campaign that used a never-before-seen attack chain to cleverly cover its tracks, researchers from security firm Mandiant reported ...