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Keldrin writes:
"Zeus is a trojan designed to steal banking credentials, and has been declared one of the most successful pieces of malware currently seen in the wild. A new variant is making detection far more difficult for anti-virus companies by hiding configuration settings inside pictures. At the moment, the malware simply encodes the configuration with Base64, passes them through XOR and RC4, then attaches them to the end of an image file. This makes for an 'infected' file that is much larger than the original. There is speculation that future releases of the malware will be able to detect minuscule changes to the colors of individual pixels, making the affected files much harder to detect."
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New Zeus Trojan Variant Using Steganography
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by NovelUserName on Friday February 21 2014, @06:55PM
I always understood that Stenography was disguising data/communication as something else, while cryptography was mangling the information in a way that only the intended recipient could recover. From that perspective this seems like a pretty simple form of stenography as it's essentially just calling itself an image file and putting on a 'hat' of real image data to hide it from antivirus scanners.
(Score: 4, Funny) by dwywit on Friday February 21 2014, @09:57PM
What do court recorders and secretaries have to do with this?
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
(Score: 2) by mrbluze on Friday February 21 2014, @10:17PM
A secretary under your desk is stenography. A secretary which has been turned into a desk is cryptography.
Do it yourself, 'cause no one else will do it yourself.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:14AM
A secretary under your desk is pornography... and yes, pics or it didn't happen. :)
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