Hackers Used Video Sharing Websites To Exchange Companies' Stolen Data

Hackers Used Video Sharing Websites To Exchange Companies' Stolen Data

Exchanging stolen data through File Sharing Websites has become Fairy Tale now. Now it's time to get your hand dirty in Video Sharing sites. Well possibly you may think how can you share data through Videos but Cyber Security Firm Skyhigh Networks has revealed that Hackers were transferring Companies' stolen data though Video Sharing Websites.

As Video Sharing Websites are widely used by Companies' Employees and others, So it is the best process to smuggle the stolen data. Another plus point is that, nobody would notice the 'suspicious' big file size of the file containing stolen data  as videos out there in websites are generally big in size, Skyhigh Networks CTO Kaushik Narayan said.

The tricky part of this is that they split companies' stolen information into small compressed files which they encrypt and wrap with any video files to make it look simple video. The Hackers may have been innovated by the similar kind of method that WinRar or WinZip or 7Zip, popular file com/decompressing softwares do.

It's needless to say that a normal user can never notice that. But this fact come into Skyhigh Networks's vision when they noticed rapid upload of videos of same size from same user keeping a short time gap.

“Importantly, the detection relied on analysis of normal usage activity rather than detecting malware signatures that don’t exist before the attack has been catalogued,” Narayan explained. “Skyhigh’s approach requires no knowledge of the attack before it’s detected.”

SkyHigh is generally expert in this kind of exploration as the firm exposed another stolen file smuggling technique in previous years.  That time they noticed that a simple IP address was pulling out stolen data by Twitter. The file smuggler was tweeting more than 100,000 tweets per day keeping the 140 character limit.