Malware authors are increasingly using multi-stage delivery techniques to evade detection, blending malicious payloads into seemingly harmless file formats. New reporting from Cybersecurity News reveals that Vidar is delivering its payload through JPEG and TXT files while leveraging scripting, obfuscation, and in-memory execution to remain undetected. The campaign combines multiple evasion layers, making it difficult
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