Attackers embedding back doors into image files

InfoWorld
Jul 19, 2013, 2:45 pm159 pts
Researchers at Sucuri, a firm focused on website security awareness and attack recovery, have discovered attackers using a known, but a rather uncommon method of maintaining access to an already compromised server: They're hiding back doors inside the headers of legitimate image files.

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