Hackers Hide Malware in Plain Sight

In a scene from the 2005 science fiction movie “Serenity,” the heroine, River Tam – a quiet, troubled girl – is watching TV in a bar when, without notice, she turns into a violent killing machine. Later, the audience learns that River was triggered by a secret message created by the government and encoded in an ordinary TV commercial for a snack bar. While River Tam and "Serenity" are just fictions, the ability to hide command-and-control computer code in seemingly mundane...

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