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) ...

Steganography, the technique of embedding hidden messages inside public files, has become very popular with exploit kit operators in 2016. Several security firms have detected multiple updates to ...

Fortinet says the Ousaban trojan uses geofenced phishing PDFs and steganography to steal banking credentials from users in Spain and Portugal.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A threat group tracked as 'Worok' hides malware within PNG images to infect victims' machines with information-stealing malware without raising alarms. This has been confirmed by researchers at Avast, ...

In a world with finite storage and an infinite need for more storage space, data compression becomes a very necessary problem. Several algorithms for data compression may be more familiar – Huffman ...

My colleague Sarah Scalet took this photograph in Brooklyn. It’s lovely, isn’t it? It’s also carrying a secret message. Spread throughout this picture are bits of information that, when decrypted and ...