Criminals push dangerous malware inside innocent images using deception

Fake Windows updates deliver advanced malware hidden inside encrypted PNG imagesHackers trick victims with update screens ...
Threat Post

Use of ‘StegWare’ Increases in Stealth Malware Attacks

Researchers are warning malware payloads can bypass traditional AV protection when delivered buried inside images, documents or even just a pixel. SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers are warning of an uptick ...
Threat Post

Malware Payloads Hide in Images: Steganography Gets a Reboot

Low-key but effective, steganography is an old-school trick of hiding code within a normal-looking image, where many cybersecurity pros may not think to look. One of the challenges of cybersecurity is ...
Dark Reading

Steganography Use on the Rise Among Cyber Espionage, Cybercrime Groups

In a potentially worrisome trend for enterprises, threat actors have increasingly begun using the ancient technique of steganography to conceal data theft and other malicious activity on compromised ...
ZDNet

Terrorists and steganography

COMMENTARY--Guess what? Osama bin Laden uses steganography. According to nameless "U.S. officials and experts" and "U.S. and foreign officials," terrorist groups are "hiding maps and photographs of ...
Computerworld

Crash course: Digital steganography

Hiding secret messages inside what seem to be harmless messages is nothing new. The word steganography itself originated in Greece and means “covered writing”. During important historic events of our ...