News University researchers tout using smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems — SmartAttack paper proposes using wearable as a covert ultras...

[Admin]

A new air-gap attack dubbed 'SmartAttack' theorizes using a smartwatch to capture covert signals and steal information.

University researchers tout using smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems — SmartAttack paper proposes using wearable as a covert ultras... : Read more

 

[chaz_music]

This makes me think of a similar research finding a few years ago that used the EMI signature of DRAM. I think they set the DRAM clock to 2.4GHz (WiFi lower band) and made precise DRAM reads to create modulated RF. The signal was readable by a WiFi system across the room but I don't remember how far they were able to get.

 

[Pierce2623]

Why do we get so many articles about threats that aren’t threats?

 

[kanewolf]

High security areas don't allow smartwatches. Been there, done that. Leave your smartwatch with your phone OUTSIDE the area.

 

[Konomi]

Why do we get so many articles about threats that aren’t threats?

Easier to find a gullible human that can either be bribed or just doesn't know what they're doing. Is how trade secrets are often leaked - humans are the weakness, always.

 

[edzieba]

Audio based exfil for airgapped systems is not in the slightest bit new. The smartwatch bit is a fairly quixotic twist: any environment that demands you remove your smartphone before entering will apply the same rule to smartwatches, and if there are no personal device controls then anyone with a smartwatch will also be carrying a smartphone too, and smartphones have a much larger attack surface to potentially compromise if you need to use an existing device to exfil rather than inserting a dedicated device (for audio exfil, that would be any compact audio recorder).

 

[jg.millirem]

More Israeli tech based around stealing data.