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 ...

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept attack that uses steganography to establish highly covert malware command and control channels on the Instagram social media network. In researching a way ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steganography involves hiding data in something else — for example, encoding data in a picture. [David Buchanan] used polyglot files not to hide data, but to send a large amount of data in a single ...

Researchers have uncovered a recent malicious advertisement campaign that’s notable for its size, scope, and resourcefulness: a two-day blitz triggered as many as 5 million times per day that used ...

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 ...