Steganography: How Hackers Hide Malware in Imagesby@jtruong
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Steganography: How Hackers Hide Malware in Images

July 29th 2021
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Image Steganography is the “practice of hiding a secret message inside of (or even on top of) something that is not secret” Hackers are constantly searching for new ways to prevent them from being caught. Images are the most common method for hackers when it comes to steganography and the hackers can decide on which image format (i.e..jpg) they want to conceal their malware in. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have agreed with McAfee stating that most modern anti-malware solutions provide little, if any, protection from image steganographers.

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