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most citedInformation Hiding as a Challenge for Malware Detection

95 citations · 165 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2025

Combining Different Existing Methods for Describing Steganography Hiding Methods

Steffen Wendzel, Christian Krätzer, Jana Dittmann +5

The proliferation of digital carriers that can be exploited to conceal arbitrary data has greatly increased the number of techniques for implementing network steganography. As a re…

cs.CR2025★ 4 cited

A Survey of Internet Censorship and its Measurement: Methodology, Trends, and Challenges

Steffen Wendzel, Simon Volpert, Sebastian Zillien +3

Internet censorship limits the access of nodes residing within a specific network environment to the public Internet, and vice versa. During the last decade, techniques for conduct…

cs.CR2023★ 15 cited

Scamming the Scammers: Using ChatGPT to Reply Mails for Wasting Time and Resources

Enrico Cambiaso, Luca Caviglione

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support cybersecurity operations is now a consolidated practice, e.g., to detect malicious code or configure traffic filtering policies.…

cs.CR2021★ 46 cited

A Revised Taxonomy of Steganography Embedding Patterns

Steffen Wendzel, Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk +8

Steganography embraces several hiding techniques which spawn across multiple domains. However, the related terminology is not unified among the different domains, such as digital m…

cs.CR2021

Deep Adversarial Learning on Google Home devices

Andrea Ranieri, Davide Caputo, Luca Verderame +2

Smart speakers and voice-based virtual assistants are core components for the success of the IoT paradigm. Unfortunately, they are vulnerable to various privacy threats exploiting…

cs.CR2018★ 1 cited

The New Threats of Information Hiding: the Road Ahead

K. Cabaj, L. Caviglione, W. Mazurczyk +3

Compared to cryptography, steganography is a less discussed domain. However, there is a recent trend of exploiting various information hiding techniques to empower malware, for ins…

cs.CR2015★ 95 cited

Information Hiding as a Challenge for Malware Detection

Wojciech Mazurczyk, Luca Caviglione

Information hiding techniques are increasingly utilized by the current malware to hide its existence and communication attempts. In this paper we highlight this new trend by review…

cs.CY2015★ 2 cited

Analysis of Human Awareness of Security and Privacy Threats in Smart Environments

Luca Caviglione, Jean-Francois Lalande, Wojciech Mazurczyk +1

Smart environments integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into devices, vehicles, buildings and cities to offer an increased quality of life, energy efficiency…

cs.CR2014

Understanding Information Hiding in iOS

Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk

The Apple operating system (iOS) has so far proved resistant to information-hiding techniques, which help attackers covertly communicate. However, Siri - a native iOS service that…

cs.MM2014★ 2 cited

Steganography in Modern Smartphones and Mitigation Techniques

Wojciech Mazurczyk, Luca Caviglione

By offering sophisticated services and centralizing a huge volume of personal data, modern smartphones changed the way we socialize, entertain and work. To this aim, they rely upon…

cs.CR2014

Hidden and Uncontrolled - On the Emergence of Network Steganographic Threats

Steffen Wendzel, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Luca Caviglione +1

Network steganography is the art of hiding secret information within innocent network transmissions. Recent findings indicate that novel malware is increasingly using network stega…