Hiding an Ear in Plain Sight: On the Practicality and Implications of Acoustic Eavesdropping with Telecom Fiber Optic Cable

Optical fibers are widely regarded as reliable communication channels due to their resistance to external interference and low signal loss. This paper demonstrates a critical side channel within telecommunication optical fiber that allows for acoustic eavesdropping. By exploiting the sensitivity ...

New Mic-E-Mouse Attack Shows Computer Mice Can Capture Conversations

Security researchers at UC Irvine reveal the 'Mic-E-Mouse' attack, showing how high-DPI optical sensors in modern mice can detect desk vibrations and reconstruct user speech with high accuracy. Learn how this side-channel vulnerability affects your privacy...

Eavesdropping on Phone Conversations Through Vibrations

Researchers have managed to eavesdrop on cell phone voice conversations by using radar to detect vibrations. It's more a proof of concept than anything else. The radar detector is only ten feet away, the setup is stylized, and accuracy is poor. But it's a start...

Malicious code in down-lo-ad-now-zip-mp3-122443-vibrations-1-nvkcw-inalaf (npm)

The package down-lo-ad-now-zip-mp3-122443-vibrations-1-nvkcw-inalaf was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-18693 Malicious code in down-lo-ad-now-zip-mp3-122443-vibrations-1-nvkcw-inalaf (npm)

The package down-lo-ad-now-zip-mp3-122443-vibrations-1-nvkcw-inalaf was found to contain malicious code...

'Lamphone' Hack Uses Lightbulb Vibrations to Eavesdrop on Homes

Researchers have discovered a novel way to spy on conversations that are happening in houses from almost a hundred feet away. The hack stems simply from a lightbulb hanging in the home. The hack, dubbed “lamphone,” is performed by analyzing the tiny vibrations of a hanging lightbulb, which are...

Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb's Vibrations

The so-called lamphone technique allows for real-time listening in on a room that's hundreds of feet away...

Sonic Tone Attacks Damage Hard Disk Drives, Crashes OS

Using sonic and ultrasonic soundwaves as a weapon, researchers can disrupt the read, write and storage functions of a hard disk drive HDD. The method can also be used to crash the host operating system, and in some cases damage targeted drives. Researchers said the attack can be performed by...

Researchers Use Music, Light to Trigger Mobile Malware

Calling it a paradigm shift, university researchers were able to trigger mobile-device malware using a modest amount of music, lighting, magnetic fields or sound vibrations. “When you go to an arena or Starbucks, you don’t expect the music to have a hidden message, so this is a big paradigm shift...