Article 24DD5 For two years, criminals stole sensitive information using malware hidden in individual pixels of ad banners

For two years, criminals stole sensitive information using malware hidden in individual pixels of ad banners

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Cory Doctorow
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Eset's report on Stegano, a newly discovered exploit kit, reveals an insanely clever, paranoid, and devastatingly effective technique used by criminals to infect their victims' computers by hiding malicious code in plain sight on websites that accepted their innocuous-seeming banner ads. (more")

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