Hypothetical hacks be like: "Ok, so you brainwash a worker to carry the computer to your house, then you modify the rubber feet to vibrate at a special frequency to transmit data at 1 bit an hour."

"6 severe security vulnerabilities that come complimentary with every purchase" really cracked me up

The issue with the vulnerability is that many of the most secure air-gap systems are located in Faraday cages.

The easiest mitigation for the over-the-air SATA transmission seems to be grounding. Usually computer cases are grounded on all sides, so even if there is a leak in the signal of any internal cable, it won't be a problem. A much more viable target of attack are the display cables.

You have to be REALLY close for this to work. If physical security is already that compromised to get close enough, then this is NOT your primary issue.

"this technique will work on virtually all computers" *laughs in m.2*

That's actually pretty cool, if the hacker can leave a device that will get the signal and send it over the internet nearby, it might solve the issue of distance

After reading the title i was like "ISN'T THAT WHAT THEY DO?!?!?!" add "wirelessly" to the title

That guy is definitely smart! His area of research is incredibly important, despite me never even really hearing or thinking about it before hearing it! Like you said though, airgapped systems are usually set up that way because they contain extremely important data or are used for highly sensitive operations. Having even a FEW good guys in this area is great, because I can guarantee the bad guys are looking for more and more ways to get into these sort of systems!

Your explanation of these complicated subjects is amazing

1:35 How the IA hacked itself out of it's system and destroyed humanity to simulate it again once it realized 42

As far as I can think of, that PLC password cracking malware isn't really going to affect anyone that are just doing regular business. Just how often would an engineer having no backup of the source program? As long as the source program is still available, one can just wipe the PLC and then download the program back onto the fresh PLC. Usually the real reason cracking the PLC is needed is if someone is trying to steel the program out of the PLC (because they want to use it elsewhere or modify it, and don't want to pay the original vendor), or the PLC was in use for so long people have no idea who still got the source file anymore when it breaks, but it would be too expensive to rewrite the program. Either case should not happen really, but people are dumb so this malware can still trick someone.

Nowadays SATA cables are significantly less popular due to the M.2 connector becoming much more popular, so many people who have built a computer recently actually wouldn't recognise the connector.

I always enjoy your videos mate and tyvm for getting right into the topics, without a long intro or ads. I respect that and therefor always let the outro/ads run while reading some comments

RF shielding tape is such an amazing invention. A cheeky way to get through EMC testing in one piece on a shoestring budget

Doesn’t a metal computer case already do a good job as faraday cage blocking rf?

6ghz? that could probably get blocked by the metal case.

I would never put something like htat car thing in my car, even without known bugs.

New 802.11ax wifi routers operate in the 6ghz range. It's called WIFI 6E

his videos never fail to amaze me

The obvious use case is that if you have an access to an air gaped computer now and you want to steal the data later. So you install one program to transmit the data and hide the receiver somewhere near.

It sounds like Mordechai Guri fell in love with Van Eck phreaking and has been attempting to expand the horizons of that world ever since.

I'm no expert in wireless communications, but wouldn't the severcase being a metal cage act like a Faraday cage and block the signal?

You explain it much better than the other video I've seen on it 😉

i once tried to bid on an apple prototype shielded against such an exploit, priced out of my range but whatever, the exploit back then was based on crts, turns out with a good mic you can recreate what a crt shows based on the sound from a decent distance and the government is concerned about that, this particular prototype was a reshelled lisa, i was more interested in it for being a lisa than a prototype but that part certainly helped

That is precisely why I write sensitive informations like passwords on paper. When any burglar steals my copybook, no one can possibly decipher my shorthand (my own invention).

To be accurate it's not hackers (usually assumed as bad people) but security researchers (good people 98% of the time) who found this out.

wait a minute. seytonic video with only 9 comments?

Nice vid now I am always paranoid thanks

Worked in places with really long 9600 baud serial cables. Wonder if you could do similar or is it the speed of the SATA which allows the EMF to be generated to that frequency?

0:08 nope, not really, a lot of people and companies have switched to m.2 drives already. Saying all is incorrect. * Ye he said pretty much all

Each video on this channel be like, “Be scared, they’re gonna hack yoooooou!” then after a few minutes, “This is impractical and unlikely.” 🥴

You can have all the security in the world but it still won't stop the bad guy from surgically implanting the matching retina pattern in his own eyeball.

You're videos are very informative. Thanks a lot for the greate content.

About USB sticks I am sure that these days some places have a very strict policy on no outside USB sticks that they did not supply themselves. They can be USB killers or even have malware on them. The malware can do a variety of things depending on the kind that is on the stick. It might steal passwords or it may even be a remote access trojan to allow for the attacker to do a bunch of nefarious things. They may be installing crypto miners on your computers, slowing your computers down. This would be a theft of your electricity, and a variety of other charges if they were ever caught.

NGL, any method that would turn a computers hardware into a radio antennae, is pretty damn cool.

"Now, if you've ever put a PC together, you'll be familiar with SATA cables." Oh, are you so sure? So someone who built a PC in say... the 80s or 90s and then never did it again knows about SATA cables just because of that? How do you figure?

Sounds reminiscent of fuzzing via i2c. Nice vids dude!

A good bit of these airgap hacks requires a USB at some point. I feel like any system that requires a computer to be completely airgapped would also not allow any usbs to be used anywhere near it.

Thanks FCC rules to make this possible. Just use a standard metal PC case, acts like a faraday case.

Why on Earth does that Pikachu have such a big booty? Is nothing sacred anymore?

I've made chip photonic inter-can leaking, to bypass vias lines and form ganglion nodes. Same basic concept.

they could rap the cables in a metal to block the rf signals

Reminds me of that hack that utilised the HDD status LED to airgap transmit data. I think that hack even got featured in Mr Robots Series IIRC. Sure it was slow but just park your black van or rent that hotel room across the street outside the window where the server HDD status led is visible from outside (Yeah that alone is a long shot). Then wait for the malware to do its job and slowly but steadily transfers key information out.

123456? That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Researchers, not hackers. This is yet another PoC that wont see use in the wild for half a decade

NSA is on the case. 👍

10 seconds in and I want to make a bet: That was the Negev group, wasn't it? The same ppl who came up with LANtenna or the DRAM-bus-wifi?

He was way too focussed on whether he could, only to forget the question whether he should

this is straight up some mission impossible stuff. Completely impractical but cool as hell.

Interface EVERYTHING! Even RADIO WAVES to _*BIT FLIP *_ given there isn't a Faraday cage around your target!

A lot of new PC's use pci or m.2 ssds. I work at a school and all staff laptops and all of the desktops we have are m.2 or pci drives.

can you share the website to get info/ details on latest hacks and writeup/ research papers?

"This technique will work on virtually all computers." Oh, so Commodore 64s, 20s, PETs, Amigas, Apple IIs, older Macs and PCs, and a bunch of other computers out there "aren't computers"?

I think there will be a niche use for it, probably on the modt important 6 bytes in the world.

I really like these videos!

Great work as usual!

Can we talk about the important things for just a moment: Thicc Pikachu

A monitor transmits more then the sata cables from what I recall. I never heard of the term air gapped but things like tempest been around forever it lets you see a monitors screen through the emf radiation a monitor emits its harder to block it cause a monitor needs to have a opening to be seen. I used tempest before to play a game over sdr I feel like it would be more practical in the long run then trying to grab signals inside a metal sever box.

Doubt it...

How to protect from extracting data from SATA-cable: case closed. Case is metal = faradays cage, not perfect one, but should keep most inside.

I just learned SATA drive and SATA cables along with air-gapped system.

“Usb sicks” where is the T!

can you please have a demo? thats new as i know 5ghz freq. hard enough to penetrate a wall so how in 6ghz? maybe you will have a strong recieve to penetrate through wall to receiver 6ghz through the wall?? is that is?

Someone browses the Cyber Security Reddit I see ;) I started reading this paper a couple of days back because of it as well ...

Golden and silver wires conduct electricity better than copper on longer distances and router inside computer probably whould not download and upload faster electrons are inside metals i dont know much about fiber optics cards.

I wonder if they used a neural net to work out how to expliot this. I really dont see how you could work out which random read and write ops would result in generating the right(and usable) signals. With a neural net, sure. You could code it up, and it owuld go through millions if not every possible combinations of read/writes and check the resulting signal

Wish I KNEW all of THIS !! Soo Much I Will !!

What’s next? Hackers hack the power button so the computer can be turned on

But sata is being faced out already? M.2 and soldering storage directly to the motherboard

Yeah if people only knew. Good stuff.

great video!

Turning a PSU into A FREAKING SPEAKER????

Sir pls do the needful and login to the PLC

This can be used against a cars canbus too.

Man... Really all we did was use a Rpi for radio. Nothing new

even in a grounded case?

Sata cable is data logger. I never imagined such hardware hack

Ngev work with UNIT 8200 maybe ...

does anyone know the background song seytonic uses in his videos?

Look who forgot about the null terminator

Beware Linode and Pi-Hole. I decided to give their app a try, using their own vid to set it up alongside Wireguard and unbound. Total waste of time: the resulting config produced no egress traffic for the 2 test devices I tried, and I could not be arsed troubleshooting it so deleted the VM. I might run a Kali instance from Linode when need arises, but giving their Pi-Hole a hard pass.

Surely a computer in a metal case would be safe as the box acts as a Faraday cage?

Obvious countermeasures are Raid setups and also encrypted data that is decrypted in the computer (as opposed to on the drive).

It would work on laptops but not desktops (earthed groundplane faraday cage)

Very good content.

great channel

Brb, out to go buy rf blocking tape

It's okay I got nothing to hide thus no strings on me... Do you?

There's always a fucking MOLE IN THE BUNCH

I was not ready to see Pikachu look like that 😭

So who made the script that just shuts down all those cars?

Hey I wanna Learn things like this I am a beginner in this world any book or something to help me

2:16 infinite solutions

vulnerabilities as complimentary 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hacking sata cable to transfer files. Isnt that what sata cables do? I mean not between disks but you know what i mean

Would not a simple BitLocker render this ineffective?

M.2s is the best.

I’ve never trusted S-ATA Cables. Never

That's amazing