MAster assignment
Image Steganography Threat in Cybersecurity
TYPE : MASTER M-CS
Period: Nov, 2022 -
Student: Basarabá, R.C. (Radu, Student M-CS)
Date Final project:
Supervisors:
Description:
Nowadays the concept of steganography is on the rise and very popular among attackers. The cybercrime group usually focuses on an E-commerce page to extract payment details for a user. A very recent case was reported by a Dutch cybersecurity firm ‘Sansec’ about this. The attackers use the concept of image steganography to hide the malicious code of a web page where retailers do their payment processing. Also, they make use of the social images that are generally used by the site administrators to make their website popular, for example, an icon of Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. The project aims to identify/detect such threats. The hackers hide malware in these social images to access the required information. The project aims to identify methods that can alert a company about this threat in advance to protect information.
Requirements:
- Interest in Image Steganography and Computer Vision
- Interest in data analysis
- Literature review on steganography threats
- Can program in Python/Matlab
References:
i) Zero-width text steganography in cybercrime attacks, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361372321001305
ii) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/10/image-steganography/ (Article, last accessed on March 7, 2022)
iii) Image Steganography: A Review of the Recent Advances (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9335027)
iv) ImageDetox: Method for the Neutralization of Malicious Code Hidden in Image Files (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/10/1621/htm)
v) Steganography: The Undetectable Cybersecurity Threat, https://builtin.com/cybersecurity/steganography (Article, last accessed on March 7, 2022)