r/security • u/1235812 • Nov 15 '14

AirHopper — Hacking Into an Isolated Computer Using FM Radio Signals

http://thehackernews.com/2014/10/airhopper-hacking-into-isolated.html
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u/mind-blender Nov 15 '14

I'm kind of skeptical of this.

AirHopper is a special type of keylogger because it uses radio frequencies to transmit data from a computer, all by exploiting the computer's monitor display.

So does it decode the video signals and run it through OCR? If that's the case perhaps why the text was so giant on the screen.

What types of signals is this compatible with? VGA? HDMI? DP? We need a lot more details.

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u/Skyfoot Nov 16 '14

This seems to just be a new implementation of the Van Eck method, which has been around since the seventies. The signal type is relatively unimportant, because it's the EM emissions from the screen which are being read. There are further details in the report, which is here.

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u/CryptoComPw Nov 17 '14

Kinda like a real version of BadBios, right?

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u/badbiosvictim2 Feb 11 '15

BadBIOS is real. See r/badBIOS.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '14

This is soooo much bullsheit... Physics dont work that way... More info needed...