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''New Malware Can Jump Air Gaps Using Inaudible Sound''

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http://gizmodo.com/new-malware-can-jump-air-gaps-using-inaudible-sound-1475444169

A team of computer scientists has developed a new breed of malware, which can leap between devices using inaudible audio signals—then covertly transmit passwords and other sensitive data without a network connection.

Using just built-in microphones and speakers, the researchers can transmit passwords and other small quantities data over distances of 65 feet.

So basically if you get this malware, there's 2 known facts:

1) You're screwed.

2) The person doing the screwing is close by.

AT LEAST it's only the researchers who have access to this as of right now. That could very well change soon. When there's a will, there's a way.

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Dahm that is really impressive! 

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Im scared :c

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THIS IS GENIUS!

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No need to be worried.. Nothing will happen.. This would require you to have already downloaded malware that would listen in on the microphone.. Both articles have taken it out of context..

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old news... can't be arsed to quote right now but there were 2 or 3 articles in like the last month or two about the BadBIOS malware that allegedly jumped air gaps using sound...

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old news... can't be arsed to quote right now but there were 2 or 3 articles in like the last month or two about the BadBIOS malware that allegedly jumped air gaps using sound...

Yeah it's completely bs and wouldn't work in the first place. Microphones are the only way this can be done but they aren't sensitive enough to replicate the data well enough that there won't be errors.

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Total and utter bollocks people, stop believeing everything you read on the internet. How is a device supposed to register the signal from audio waves without local software interpreting the sound via a microphone in the first place? And if they managed to put THAT on your device, well they might as well have dropped the malware off instead.

 

What this is saying is that it's possible to transmit data via sound, something that I think old morse code operators could have told you.

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