Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
The authors of the Stegoloader malware are exploiting digital steganography to target companies worldwide, mainly US Healthcare companies. A couple of weeks ago, the security researchers at Dell SecureWorks discovered a new strain of malware dubbed Stegoloader, that exploits steganography as an evasion technique. Once infected the victimâs machine, a specific loader module loads a PNG file that contains […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2015
The authors of the Stegoloader malware are exploiting digital steganography to keep the information-stealing under the radar and avoid detection. Malware authors are prolific professionals always searching for techniques that can allow them to hide their malicious codes from detection. This week the security researchers at Dell SecureWorks discovered a new strain of malware dubbed Stegoloader, that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2015
Security experts at Fortinet uncovered a new strain of the Vawtrak banking Trojan is implementing an obscuring mechanism based on the Tor2Web service. The authors of the banking Trojan Vawtrak are adopting a new tactic to hide the traffic to its servers,  they are exploiting  the Tor2Web service to masquerade malicious connections. In the past, criminal crews behind […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 29, 2015
Stegosploit is the technique developed by the security researcher Saumil Shah that allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an image. The security researcher Saumil Shah from Net Square security has presented at Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam his Stegosploit project which allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2014
Security experts have detected an attack against a major firm that used a data exfiltration technique based on the video steganography. Threats actors in the wild are exfiltrating data with a technique based on video uploaded to cloud services. Attackers adopted this trick to move data from a compromised target outside without detection by conventional solutions, such as intrusion detection/prevention systems. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2014
The NSA used the twitter account to send an encoded message that has created the chaos on The Internet. The mystery was solved soon … what’s happening? The NSA has started a bit of a Tweet-storm, this morning the followers of the NSACareers Twitter account noticed a curious cryptic message sent from the careers account of the Agency. Coincidentally, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2014
Discover how it is possible to apply steganography to hide secret messages in common tweets (or any text) with steg.js-of-the-dump. In the past we have discussed many times on the adoption of steganography to hide messages within images and video, a technique exploited also by authors of malware to hide configuration file and command sent by the C&C […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2014
Discovered a Zeus variant that implements a web-crawling feature to hit Software-as-a-service applications to obtain access to proprietary data or code This is the second news on Zeus malware in less than a week, previous one was related to a new variant using steganography to hide configuration file, this last discovery is related to a version even more […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2014
Security experts at Malwarebytes detected a new of the popular Zeus banking trojan variant which makes use of steganography to hide the configuration file. The immortal Zeus malware strikes again, researchers at Malwarebytes have found a new variant of the banking trojan. The new variant of Zeus is using the steganography to disguise the configuration code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2013
In this period there is an intense debate on the wiretapping of every communication channel, governments are increasing the monitoring of internet, of social network platforms and VOIP conversations in many cases with supports of the companies that provide those services. In a recent post I discussed on the control ordered by Indian Governments that […]
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