Hackers can intercept electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your monitor and computer and decode what you are seeing on screen with the help of artificial intelligence. Such attacks are probably taking place in the real world, says the team behind the work, but ordinary computer users have little to worry about...
Federico Larroca at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, and his colleagues have developed an AI model that can reconstruct an image from digital signals that were intercepted a few metres away from an HDMI cable...
Around 30 per cent of characters were misinterpreted by the eavesdropping process, but that is low enough that humans can read most of the text accurately, the team says. This error rate is about 60 per cent lower than the previous state-of-the-art attack, the researchers add. more