From: VPN Creative
By Summer Hirst
The applications of steganography have moved beyond the scope of terror groups and intelligence agencies. One of the latest and rather depressing applications has been found by cyber criminals who have started embedding critical information into digital images.
According to an official at Dell SecureWorks, some infected customer sites have been attacked by a malware called ‘Lurk’. It attacked the machines when the user clicked on a fraudulent digital image.
Brett Stone-Gross, who works as a researcher at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit, added that the technique is used for targeted victims, and it is very uncommon to send hidden malware in these cases.
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