Stego Battlefield: Evaluating Image Steganography Attacks and Steganalysis Defenses

ArXi:2605.05789v1 Announce Type: cross Image steganography is widely used to protect user privacy and enable covert communication. However, it can also be abused by the adversary as a covert channel to bypass content moderation, disseminate harmful semantics, and even hide malicious instructions in images to elicit dangerous outputs from large models, posing a practical security risk that continues to evolve.