Hackers used Ars Technica and Vimeo to deliver malware using obfuscated binary instructions in a URL

Security analytics firm Mandiant recently uncovered a "never-before-seen" attack chain that used Base 64 encoding on at least two different websites to deliver the second-stage payload of a three-stage malware. The two sites were tech publication Ars Technica and video hosting site Vimeo.

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