Scammers hide viruses in texts

[Объединенное Детективное Бюро]

Scientists have developed a new technology that allows you to hide malicious code inside common English sentences. Hackers can get around most of today's antiviruses by hiding malicious code inside plain text, security experts say. According to Josh Mason of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, current anti-virus systems are based on the assumption that malicious code is different from plain text, such as English prose, because it has a different structure, according to newscientist.com. However, a team of researchers has now discovered a way to hide viruses inside common English sentences. Scientists have developed a technology that can search a large number of texts in English (more than 15 thousand articles from Wikipedia and about 27 thousand books), finding in them combinations of words that can be used in malicious code.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank!

 

[parbaude]

Why print such junk and it’s wrong. Any malicious program (Trojan, virus, keylogger, etc.) can be hidden under your favorite text file or picture. To do this, you need a simple joiner (file gluing) and a cryptor to hide the malicious program, the fact of file gluing from the WUA. But if the joiner and the malicious program and the * private * section then the cryptor is not needed at all.

 

[Stels]

Very interesting technology (it was mentioned in 2009).

Apparently, in order to collect this code from the text and run for execution, you will need something else virus-like (i.e., returning to the original).
Hopkins University Hackers will come up with something: D: D: D.

 

[Gerasimov]

In order for the victim to make a decision on whether he wants to act according to the law to the detriment of his position, he just needs to know how great this damage will be.

PS By the way, Doctor Web's specialists coped all the same, from the second attempt. So, the topic turns more into a theoretical one. But to know about the procedure would still be very interesting.

 

[David Mamedov]

Yes, it's kind of called a "Trojan". It doesn't have to be a text dock - it might even be suspicious. It is best to hide the virus in some kind of application. But I don't know how yet)

 

[Частный детектив. Москва.]

Surely, or rather 100% - someone will create a stronger antivirus.

 

[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

Have a new way? And what about antivirus and medicine against this infection?

 

[частный детектив. Узбекистан. Ташкент.]

Interesting technology!

 

[Детективное агентство Одесса]

It was mainstream back then.