"Growing Cyberthreat: Steganographic Malware Hiding In Images"

Steganographic malware uses a technique that inserts a secret algorithm into an image, which is then sent to a targeted system where the information embedded within the image is extracted by malicious software to launch an attack. This attack is stealthy as it is able to bypass regular security implementations and tools since the image consisting of the hidden information appears as any other image file. Although this type of attack isn’t new, there has been a significant rise of steganographic malware as noticed by security researchers. This article further discusses this type of attack, a recent spread of an attack that uses this method, and ways to avoid such attacks. 

IBT reports "Growing Cyberthreat: Steganographic Malware Hiding In Images"