Flashback to January of this year when I posted that Anonymous has most likely been infiltrated by multiple organizations (including law enforcement and terror organizations) and may be unwillingly distributing terrorist messages.
I have finally successfully cracked open one of the Anonymous related images suspected of containing Steganography...and I'm quite intrigued by its contents. As far as I know, this is only the second Steganographic image found in the wild which has been successfully cracked. The first image was posted online by NBC back in 2001 as part of a news story, and had a very simple password of "abc".
Showing posts with label Steganography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steganography. Show all posts
Anonymous OpIsrael - Prelude to a Hamas Attack?
On April 7th Anonymous plans to disable the Israel government's Internet capabilities through a massive hacking/denial of service attack.
It has been long suspected that Hamas has a great influence inside Anonymous. Th3j35t3r and others, including myself, have repeatedly warned that Anonymous has been infiltrated by terror organizations - and #OpIsrael may be Hamas' way of disabling Internet communications of the Israel government prior to an attack.
It has been long suspected that Hamas has a great influence inside Anonymous. Th3j35t3r and others, including myself, have repeatedly warned that Anonymous has been infiltrated by terror organizations - and #OpIsrael may be Hamas' way of disabling Internet communications of the Israel government prior to an attack.
Anonymous and Steganography - Blindly Distributing Terrorist Messages?
As previously warned multiple times by Th3J35t3r and myself - Anonymous may be unwitting pawns in a much larger chess game.
While their public support of terrorist organizations is being dismissed with "anyone can claim to be Anonymous" their blind distribution of encrypted files containing information from outside entities may not even be known to the inner-most circles of the organization.
What encrypted files? One of the most common means of distributing Anonymous related information is through social media - especially through the distribution of image files. Little known to many outside the security field is that images can be used to hide information through a process called Steganography. For those not familiar with the topic here is an excellent whitepaper on how Steganography works as well as how to detect it. I have started using the StegDetect program from Outguess.org and have found some interesting results.
I recently started analyzing several images being re-posted by the Twitter handle @YourAnonNews. Out of 51 images analyzed I found two images which returned "positive" as having embedded data, as well as two additional images which generated errors during analysis (possibly obfuscated?).
The first picture with a positive hit was an internet meme of the TV show "Game of Thrones".
While their public support of terrorist organizations is being dismissed with "anyone can claim to be Anonymous" their blind distribution of encrypted files containing information from outside entities may not even be known to the inner-most circles of the organization.
What encrypted files? One of the most common means of distributing Anonymous related information is through social media - especially through the distribution of image files. Little known to many outside the security field is that images can be used to hide information through a process called Steganography. For those not familiar with the topic here is an excellent whitepaper on how Steganography works as well as how to detect it. I have started using the StegDetect program from Outguess.org and have found some interesting results.
I recently started analyzing several images being re-posted by the Twitter handle @YourAnonNews. Out of 51 images analyzed I found two images which returned "positive" as having embedded data, as well as two additional images which generated errors during analysis (possibly obfuscated?).
The first picture with a positive hit was an internet meme of the TV show "Game of Thrones".
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