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."
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by linsane on Friday February 21 2014, @07:12PM
I promise this is not a troll effort, of course the thing that was bugging me was that I was certain that there was a 'Zeus Trojan' variant but evidently (as far as my Google fu dares take things) this is must my mind playing tricks:
http://www.bluezeus.co.uk/ [bluezeus.co.uk] and http://www.trojancondoms.com/ [trojancondoms.com] were somehow merged in my head.
Probably not SN material but hey, SN folk are allowed out of the basement on occasion.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by linsane on Friday February 21 2014, @07:39PM
Off-topic??? Fair enough.
Well I hope this http://memegenerator.net/instance/36244795 [memegenerator.net] Stenography Condom brings it back on-topic and covers off the bit of the title that I missed out first time around.