New malware that uses steganography always gets my attention, but I was disappointed when I looked at the latest DOUBLECUP write-up. It doesn't use real steganography:
AutoIT Payload Injector https://isc.sans.edu/diary/AutoIT%20Payload%20Injector%20/33192 Apple Security Update https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100 SourTrade: Browser-Assembled Malware Delivered Through Malvertising https://blog.confiant.com/p/sourtrade-browser-assembled-malware NGINX Exploit CVE-2026-42530, CVE-2026-42533 https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift/tree/main My Upcoming Classes https://www.sans.org/profiles/dr-johannes-ullrich
For a long time, AutoIT[1] has been pretty common in the malware ecosystem. Threat actors still use it because it's easy to write and powerful. Indeed, it can perform all the required actions to inject a payload into a remote process as you'll see below.
Palword ist fertig, Zeit für einen Test. Doch beim Review kam es zu Komplikationen. Wir klären über das Timing auf.
Ihr könnt Subnautica 2 bald selbst spielen. Wir erklären, wann und wie es genau losgeht.
A .WAV With A Payload https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20.WAV%20With%20A%20Payload/32910 The Phishy GitHub Issue Case https://blog.atsika.ninja/posts/the-phishy-github-issue-case/ P4WNED: How Insecure Defaults in Perforce Expose Source Code Across the Internet https://morganrobertson.net/p4wned/
There have been reports of threat actors using a .wav file as a vector for malware.