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OceanLotus APT Hackers Group using Steganography to Launch an Encrypted Malware Payload via .png Image File

A Well-known APT Group OceanLotus leveraging a steganography method to hide the encrypted malware payload within a .png image file to infect the targeted system. OceanLotus group known for Multiple attack campaigns around the globe, the threat actor group targets private sectors across multiple industries, foreign governments. Steganography, a method used by attackers to hide […]

Hackers using steganography to Drop the Powload Malware & Hide Their Malvertising Traffic

Cyber criminals now approaching a unique way to spread Powload malware with the help of steganography to infect the targeted system. Powload campaign activity distributing since 2018 through fileless techniques and hijacking email accounts to deliver the information-stealing malware such as emotet and Ursnif. But the recent attacks employed the steganography techniques in which attackers […]

StegCracker – Brute-force Utility to Uncover Hidden Data Inside Files

Steganography is an art of hiding messages covert way so that exclusive the sender and recipient know the original message.This technique permits sender and receiver to communicate secretly and the third party won’t mindful of the correspondence happen. Steganalysis is the process of recovering hidden data, It decides the encoded hidden message, and if conceivable, it […]

Risk with Steganography and Importance of running Steganalysis with Network Systems

Steganography is an art of hiding messages covert way so that exclusive the sender and recipient know the original message. This technique permits sender and receiver to communicate secretly and the third party won’t mindful of the correspondence happen. It replaces bits of unused information into the standard files—graphic, sound, text,video—with some different bits that […]

Steganography Is Very Popular with Exploit Kits All of a Sudden

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 exploit kits which recently started using steganography as the main component of their operations, or are employing steganography as a way to hide exploit and malware payloads […]

Magento Malware Uses Steganography to Steal Payment Card Data

Malware hides credit card data inside image files. Hackers are collecting payment card data from Magento stores, hiding the stolen data inside JPG images, which they’re downloading from infected stores without raising any suspicions. During the past year, attackers have shifted their gaze towards online e-commerce platforms, where they found a fertile ground for collecting […]

Matroschka – Another Steganography tool written in Python

Recently we have been posting lot of new tools related to ‘steganography‘, a tool which is used to hide images or text in images. Matroschka, a steganography tool written in pure Python. You can use this tool to hide and encrypt images or text in the least significant bits of pixels in an image. HMAC-SHA256 […]

OpenStego – Steganography Application

OpenStego is a steganography application that can be used for data hiding and watermarking. Steganography tool is mostly used by hackers to hide secret messages inside another larger and harmless looking message. Hide data: Hide data into an image Extract data: Extract data from a image   Generate signature Embed watermark Verify watermark     […]