By taking advantage of this, an attacker can get their malware onto the system.
This can be via hard drives, or third party software for example.
the hard part is, getting the data out from the system as the system is offline.
Ben Gurion researchers demonstrated sending this data using radio signals.
How does it work ?
Which means the attacker does not necessarily have to be in the same room as the isolated machine.
Just being in the corridor outside the room is enough.
His technique used light as a medium.
His technique involves flashing a laser light at the lid of a scanner connected to a computer.
And this attack can be used over longer distances, upto a kilometer approximately.
Even this technique has proved very effective in transmitting data from an isolated computer.
Resource :PoC of AirHopper(Downloadable PDF)
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source: www.techworm.net
