Infected Art

[midway40]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7279000/7279278.stm

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[lordpake]

Nice find.

[ronjor]

Previous post. (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=197826)

[Eagle Creek]

Funny, but it isn't more than that in my opinion. I don't see why that would be a virus :-).

[MikeBCda]

Getting back to what the subject-title implied (and why I read the topic) ...

I'd heard years ago that one of the research labs had discovered it was theoretically possible to embed malware into JPG's, but they hadn't (yet) run into any actual instances of this having been done.

Has this since been disproven, or is it still considered a theoretical risk, just waiting for someone to get it to work?

[midway40]

Sorry about that Ron, I must have missed that post :-[

Also sorry about the title, I didn't mean it that way. The pics themselves are not malware but created from malware. Ron's link explains it better:

-{ Quote: "Dragulescu, a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sociable Media Group, created his so-called "threat art" in conjunction with live malware intercepted by e-mail security firm MessageLabs. Each is disassembled into a dump of binary code and then run through a program Dragulescu wrote. That program spends a few hours crunching through all the data, looking for patterns in the code that will determine the shape, color and complexity of each piece of threat art. " }-

I guess you can find art in anything, lol.