Instegogram: Exploiting Instagram for C2 via Image Steganography

Exploiting social media sites for command-and-control (C2) has been growing in popularity in the past few years. But both Good and Bad guys have privacy concerns about their communication methods. Discoverable encryption may not always be the answer. By using image stenography we hide command-and-control messages in plain sight within digital images posted to the social media site Instagram. In this presentation, we will demo Instegogram as well as discuss how to detect and prevent it.

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