Air-Gap Attack Turns Memory Modules into Wi-Fi Radios
Attack turns SDRAM buses into a Wi-Fi radio to leak data from air-gapped computers. Super-secure air-gapped computers are vulnerable to a new type of attack that can turn a PC’s memory module into a modified Wi-Fi radio, which can then transmit sensitive data at 100 bits-per-second wirelessly to nearly six feet away. Noted air-gap researcher Mordechai Guri created the proof-of-concept (PoC) attack and described it in a research paper released earlier this month under the auspices of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel’s cybersecurity research center. “Malware in a compromised ai...
Source: threatpost.com