Topic: SECURITY - on June 28, 2016 at 2:29:00 PM CEST
How a Kitten Video Can Transmit Secret Instructions to Criminals
An ancient form of information-hiding known as steganography has infiltrated the viral internet. Imagine your computer is infected. The virus that has infiltrated your machine commands it to perform tasks and open applications that you would normally use–except you’re not there to run them. At the same time every day, it launches Twitter, then generates user handles and hunts through tweets. It searches and waits until, bingo—it finds a recently tweeted link that leads to a photo of a flower. But, this is no ordinary photo. Laced into the Github image file’s long string of code are secret instructions that it needs to extract and upload information from your compromised computer to an internet cloud service set up by a hacker.
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