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Hackers Use Steganographic Images to Bypass Anti-Malware and Deploy Malware


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2026-02-24 07:51:03
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Hackers are abusing steganography in PNG images to smuggle a Pulsar Remote Access Trojan (RAT) into Windows systems through a malicious NPM package named buildrunner‑dev. The attack starts with a typosquatted NPM package, buildrunner‑dev, which impersonates the abandoned “buildrunner”/“build-runner” tools to catch developers who mistype or assume it is a maintained fork. Its package.json looks harmless but defines a postinstall hook […]


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Mayura Kathir

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Source Link: https://gbhackers.com/steganographic-images/


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