Ars Technica is making something known to where a user uploaded an image to a profile, encoded that image with malicious content of some sort, and then did the same with a video on a video site with its description being the culprit.
According to the article, this is new to Mandient, the company that spotted this.
Users who viewed the image or video were not infected, but those that were, were given a second payload.
Clever! Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation is written by Dan Goodin.
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