Hackers Shifting Towards Non-Executable .txt & .log Files to Deliver Malware

Recently, researchers have found an increasing number of malware samples that employ code from non-executable files (such as .txt, .log, etc.), a strategy created particularly to get beyond standard detection procedures.  These files are often deceptively simple, with only a line or two of base64 or hex-encoded code. Malware is more frequently discovered in specific file […]

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