Dina hörlurar kan avlyssna dig
Dina hörlurar kan förvandlas till avlyssningsutrustning, även m du har slagit av en eventuell mikrofon i dem visar israeliska säkerhetsforskare.
Forskarna vid Ben Gurion universitete har skapat en mjukvara som kan spridas och som kan göra om hörlurar till avlyssningsutrusning och även spela in exempelvis ett samtal som förs i närheten.
But the Ben Gurion researchers took that hack a step further. Their malware uses a little-known feature of RealTek audio codec chips to silently retask the computers output channel as an input channel, allowing the malware to record audio even when the headphones remain connected into an output-only jack and dont even have a microphone channel on their plug. The researchers say the RealTek chips are so common that the attack works on practically any desktop computer, whether it runs Windows or MacOS, and most laptops, too. RealTek didnt immediately respond to WIREDs request for comment on the Ben Gurion researchers work. This is the real vulnerability, says Guri. Its what makes almost every computer today vulnerable to this type of attack.
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