Stenography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo
Internet snoops has been caught concealing spyware in an old Windows logo in an attack on governments in the Middle East.
"Although rarely used by attackers, if successfully executed, steganography can be leveraged to disguise malicious code in seemingly innocuous-looking image files," researchers at Symantec's Threat Hunter Team Hiding the payload in this way, and placing the file somewhere innocuous online, is a big advantage in evading security software, as"downloads from trusted hosts such as GitHub are far less likely to raise red flags than downloads from an attacker-controlled command-and-control server," the team said.
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