AirHopper Hacking Isolated Computers Using Radio Signals

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgF1w652HyV1OiYzPGNUeug4QBPj2jefHVndIurjlvaOGXXUv13YdMiRKPpG_NZUzePginId8Wn_mhp1yAm_0tyDFNL2wv4GmanIuyqywzcxR_7FEzLiD0KrbL44IuQ94C4cYkslgC9bn/s1600/AirHopper+Hacking+Isolated+Computers+Using+Radio+Signals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="AirHopper Hacking Isolated Computers Using Radio Signals" border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgF1w652HyV1OiYzPGNUeug4QBPj2jefHVndIurjlvaOGXXUv13YdMiRKPpG_NZUzePginId8Wn_mhp1yAm_0tyDFNL2wv4GmanIuyqywzcxR_7FEzLiD0KrbL44IuQ94C4cYkslgC9bn/s1600/AirHopper+Hacking+Isolated+Computers+Using+Radio+Signals.jpg" title="" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Security Researchers <b>Mordechai Guri</b> and <b>Professor Yuval Elovici</b> at the Ben Gurion University in Israel found a new way to breach data even with no network connection.<br /> <br /> A <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/607xa16yz6yjpsa/Air-Hopper-MALWARE-final-e.pdf">proof of concept malware</a> developed by researchers show that attacker can transmit sensitive information from isolated computers to nearby mobile phone using radio signals.Security researchers presented this malware on the 9^thIEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software <b>(MALCON 2014)</b> held at Denver.This new type of malware is called AirHopper.<br /> <div div="" id="ad3" style="float: left; padding: 10px;"> </div> <br /> In highly secure facilities the assumption today is that data cannot leak outside of an isolated internal network,it is called <b>air-gap security</b>.<br /> <br /> "This is the first time that a mobile phone is considered in an attack model as the intended receiver of maliciously crafted radio signals emitted from the screen of the isolated computer."according to Ben Gurion University.<br /> <br /> Test conducted with AirHopper have shown that data can be transmitted from the physically isolated device upto the distance of 7 meters with FM bandwith of 13-60 bps (Bytes per second).<br /> <br /> "Such technique can be used potentially by people or organisations with malicious intentions and we want to start a discussion on how to mitigate this newly presented risk.", said Dudu Mimran chief technology officer of cyber security labs at Ben Gurion University.<br /> <br /> Security Researchers also uploaded proof-of-concept video.<br /> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2OzTWiGl1rM" width="560"></iframe> </div>

AirHopper Hacking Isolated Computers Using Radio Signals

Security Researchers Mordechai Guri and Professor Yuval Elovici at the Ben Gurion University in Israel found a new way to breach da...

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