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Re:Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan ... by sourthyme on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:58AM (#18990427)
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is Apple fonts required here?
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Re:Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan ... by callinyouin on Thursday January 24, 2019 @12:03PM (#18990481)
Seems like an odd method, but I believe that is how they are specifically targeting macOS machines for this particular malware.
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Re:Steganography Based Ad Payload That Drops Shlayer Trojan ... by eliya_confiant on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:48PM (#18991645)
That's correct. It's just a subtle way of doing OS fingerprinting.
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