So you’re just minding your own business looking at memes online and oh what’s that? That’s right you’ve been infected with malware. This is possible thanks to a technique discovered by security researcher Saumil Shah from India, Dubbed “Stegosploit”.
Saumil Shah discussed his Steganography based attack in detail and went on to say:
“I don’t need to host a blog… I don’t need to host a website at all. I don’t even need to register a domain. I can take an image, upload it somewhere and if I just point you toward that image, and you load this image in a browser, it will detonate.”