These file-conversion tools often work as advertised, but ultimately pair the converted file with a program designed to secretly hijack the victim’s computer, the FBI warns.

The LokiBot malware family has been given a significant upgrade with the ability to hide its source code in image files on infected machines. Known as steganography, the technique is used to hide ...

QBot malware phishing campaigns have adopted a new distribution method using SVG files to perform HTML smuggling that locally creates a malicious installer for Windows.

Researchers find a malware campaign that uses file-naming trickery to get victims to download malicious files from the internet. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer May 23, 2022 at 6:57 a.m. PT ...

While malware analysts can inspect embedded files in PDFs using parsers and scripts, regular users who receive these tricky emails wouldn’t go that far or even know where to start.

The FBI warns about cybercriminals using free file conversion tools to install malware, putting users at risk of data theft and ransomware attacks. arrow-down comments ...

A new email malware campaign hides a malicious payload in what appears to be a Microsoft Compiled HTML Help file. A new email campaign designed to spread the Vidar spyware package uses a novel ...

A second example of malware targeting macOS users has surfaced this week, with the discovery of a Word document that attempts to use an automatically-running macro, one that tries to download a ...

“It might also claim to combine files, such as joining multiple .jpg files into one .pdf file." In other cases, the malicious tool will claim it can download MP3 or MP4 media files from a site.