Researchers Jump the Security Air Gap With a Feature Phone
Infosecurity Magazine | July 29, 2015
Israeli security researchers have discovered a way to steal sensitive information from a supposedly secure “air gapped” PC using just a lightweight piece of malware and a cheap GSM feature phone. In research set to be released in August, a team at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center claimed the ‘hack’ requires malware dubbed GSMem to be installed onto the computer. Its malicious code works to modify the CPU firmware, forcing it to transmit data to the phone over the cellular network.