Stegosploit

[sakthibruce]

The next time someone sends you a link to picture, be it that of a funny cat or a beautiful sunset, be careful before you click on it—it might hack your computer.

That image might look just like another regular image, but thanks to a technique devised by Saumil Shah, a security researcher from India, a hacker could hide malicious code inside the picture’s pixels, literally hiding an exploit in plain sight.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-you-can-get-hacked-just-by-looking-at-a-picture-online?utm_source=mbfb