At the recent Infosecurity Europe 2007, security experts came up with the warning of hack attacks and data theft, which are being made simpler with the utilization of out of sight executables and an ultra-modern variation on the microdot spying technique. The security expert said that the 1st attack of the attacker is to put in an executable malware file in a Word document, which on being opened breaks down the PC and the malware is automatically laden while the PC reboots.
This technique is said to be cunning, as anti-virus product are not capable enough to find out this type of attack. Many legacy Word code is said to be ready for this type of attack. It is the attack vector of choice for hostile intelligence agencies and professional criminals.
The 2nd method is a variation of the conventional spying technique of microdotting, where info is snapped and condensed to the size of a dot and pasted into a document. The latest method seems to be equivalent, however makes use of text boxes in Word docs. Confidential info can be pasted into a text box and after that the box is condensed and positioned in the doc to bear a resemblance to a punctuation mark. However anti-virus purveyors are confident that present security systems would prevent the 1st type of attack.
