SUNBURST Malware Used Digital Steganography
In what has become a recurring theme of several notably damaging, stealthy, and sophisticated malware samples in recent years, the security firm FireEye recently reported that the SUNBURST malware that compromised the SolarWinds Orion security software employed anti-forensic techniques such as digital steganography to obscure its network traffic between infected hosts and the command and control (C2) server (CISA…