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Cybercriminals Hide Undetectable Ransomware Inside JPG Images
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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The real story, such as it is, appears to be that someone made an MS Word macro which can load and execute malicious code from other files such as a jpeg, supposedly to make automated detection of it less likely.
MS Word eh? Figures.