Stego Battlefield: Evaluating Image Steganography Attacks and Steganalysis Defenses

arXiv preprint, 2026

Zhen Sun, Zongmin Zhang, Leyi Sheng, Yule Liu, Yifan Liao, Ke Li, Xinhu Zheng, Jiaheng Wei, Wenyuan Yang, and Xinlei He.

SADBench systematically evaluates image steganography attacks and steganalysis defenses under practical security scenarios. It covers attack capability, defense capability, efficiency, and transferability across image-payload and text-payload steganography.

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