Researchers Create Malware That Steals Data via Power Lines

guest · Apr 12, 2018

Researchers Create Malware That Steals Data via Power Lines
April 12, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ate-malware-that-steals-data-via-power-lines/

A team of academics has successfully developed and tested malware that can exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via power lines. The team —from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel— named their data exfiltration technique PowerHammer.

PowerHammer works by infecting an air-gapped computer with malware that intentionally alters CPU utilization levels to make the victim's computer consume more or less electrical power.
There are two types of PowerHammer attacks
To retrieve this data, an attacker must tap a victim's electrical network so it can read the power consumption variation and decode the binary data hidden inside.
The first is "line level power-hammering, [...] / The second is "phase level power-hammering," [...]
Attack works on desktops, servers, IoT devices
Experiments revealed the attack is successful for stealing data from air-gapped desktops, laptops, servers, and even IoT devices, but the speed exfiltration speed is slower for the latter.
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EASTER · Apr 12, 2018

Well, I always used to say back on Windows 98 into XP, what's next? Hijacking the electricity?

Guess so

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