The New Threats of Information Hiding: The Road Ahead

@article{Cabaj2018TheNT,
  title={The New Threats of Information Hiding: The Road Ahead},
  author={Krzysztof Cabaj and L. Caviglione and W. Mazurczyk and S. Wendzel and A. Woodward and S. Zander},
  journal={IT Professional},
  year={2018},
  volume={20},
  pages={31-39}
}
  • Krzysztof Cabaj, L. Caviglione, +3 authors S. Zander
  • Published 2018
  • Computer Science
  • IT Professional
    • A recent trend involves exploiting various information-hiding techniques to empower malware-for example, to bypass mobile device security frameworks or to exfiltrate sensitive data. The authors provide an overview of information-hiding techniques that can be utilized by malware. They showcase existing and emerging threats that use different types of data-hiding mechanisms (not just those adopting classical covert channels), with the goal of monitoring these threats and proposing efficient… CONTINUE READING
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