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Rare Steganography Hack Can Compromise Fully Patched Websites

Attackers are hiding PHP scripts in EXIF headers of JPEG images to hack websites, just by uploading an image. An unusual steganographic technique that an attacker can use to implant a malicious ...
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 ...
Digital Journal

Hackers using ‘steganography’ tactics for malware attacks

In early September 2022, researchers identified a threat group [Worok] that targeted many victims, including government entities around the world, to gain access to devices. The hackers concealed ...
Computerworld

Steganography: Hidden Data

An engineering firm suspected that an insider was transmitting valuable intellectual property out of its network. When Seattle-based forensics consulting firm Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc. (EED) ...
CSOonline

Criminals using steganography tricks to manage ZBOT attacks

According to a brief blog post from researchers at TrendLabs, criminals have been using steganography to manage ZBOT infections by embedding configuration files within images of sunsets; or in some ...