Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation
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Vimeo also used by legitimate user who posted booby-trapped content.

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation — Buried in URL was a string of characters that appeared to be random, but were actually a payload::Vimeo also used by legitimate user who posted booby-trapped content.

Damn, that’s pretty cool actually.

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