Hackers Use Steganographic Images to Bypass Anti-Malware and Deploy Malware

Hackers are abusing steganography in PNG images to smuggle a Pulsar Remote Access Trojan (RAT) into Windows systems through a malicious NPM package named buildrunner‑dev. The attack starts with a typosquatted NPM package, buildrunner‑dev, which impersonates the abandoned “buildrunner”/“build-runner” tools to catch developers who mistype or assume it is a maintained fork. Its package.json looks harmless but defines a postinstall hook […]

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