Zero-width text steganography in cybercrime attacks. Issue 12 (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaushik, Keshav; Bhardwaj, Akashdeep
• Is Part Of: Computer fraud & security. Issue 12(2021)
• Page Start: 16
• Page End: 19
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: Computer crimes -- Periodicals; Computers -- Access control -- Periodicals; 364.168
• DOI: 10.1016/S1361-3723(21)00130-5
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1361-3723

Abstract

Abstract : Steganography is an ancient practice historically used by kings and other rules to conceal messages. Its aim is to hide a message within some other medium. Steganography has different forms, depending on the media used, such as audio, video, network traffic and so on. However, those are not the only ways to communicate in secret. It's possible to create secret correspondence with the aid of textual steganography – text within text – concealing the information in plain text with the aid of 'null-width' characters.