Security News > 2018 > April > Researchers use power lines to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers

Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have come up with another way to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers: this time, its via malware that can control the power consumption of the system. “Data is modulated, encoded, and transmitted on top of the current flow fluctuations, and then it is conducted and propagated through the power lines,” they pointed out. They call this malware PowerHammer. Data exfiltration via power lines They have devised two … More → The post Researchers use power lines to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers appeared first on Help Net Security.

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