Steganography is the practice of hiding messages or information in plain sight, especially inside other data or images. And a new toolset, which debuted earlier this month at the Black Hat Europe conference in London, suggests steganography is going to get much more difficult to spot in the future.

Digital steganography has already been put to use by bad actors. In 2013, for example, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab and Budapest-based CrySyS Lab discovered an online espionage campaign that used attack code called MiniDuke, which looked to specified Twitter accounts to retrieve command-and-control instructions.

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