steganography
AI-Generated Steganography
New research suggests that AIs can produce perfectly secure steganographic images: Abstract: Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an adversarial third party ...
Data Obfuscation: An Image Is Worth a Thousand Lines of Malware
Adversaries love to hide malware in images, a tactic called data obfuscation. To help you solve this problem, at AttackIQ we have built scenarios to test your defensive capabilities' ability to detect ...
Trojan Infects Browser Extensions After Disabling Integrity Checks
Security researchers have discovered a new Trojan program dubbed Razy that installs itself as a browser extension or infects existing browser extensions after disabling integrity checks. According to researchers from Kaspersky Lab, ...
Malvertising Campaign Used Steganography to Distribute Shlayer Trojan
A short-lived malvertising campaign leveraged a steganography-based payload to target Mac users with the Shlayer trojan. Named for its use of veryield-malyst[dot]com as one of its ad-serving domains, the “VeryMal” threat actor ...
What does Cybersecurity have in store for 2019?
A guest article authored by Tom Kellermann, Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Carbon BlackIn every intelligence industry there’s often a central aim: predicting the future. We collect and analyse, dissect and interpret, looking for ...
Malware Using Memes Posted on Twitter as C&C Service
Researchers have observed a new threat using malicious memes posted on Twitter to receive command-and-control (C&C) instructions. Trend Micro observed that the malicious activity begins after a threat detected as “TROJAN.MSIL.BERBOMTHUM.AA” executes ...
Glyph Perturbation, The Science of Font Steganography
via Chang Xiao, Cheng Zhang, Changxi Zheng, all from Columbia University, and presented at the ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2018), comes this phenomenal steganographic research; in which, a new methodology to ...
Subverting Backdoored Encryption
This is a really interesting research result. This paper proves that two parties can create a secure communications channel using a communications system with a backdoor. It's a theoretical result, so it ...
Toolsmith – GSE Edition: Image Steganography & StegExpose
Cross-posted on the Internet Storm Center Diary.Updated with contest winners 14 DEC. Congrats to: Chrissy @SecAssistanceOwen Yang @HomingFromWorkPaul Craddy @pcraddyMason Pokladnik - Fellow STI gradElliot Harbin @klax0ffIn the last of a three ...
