I think the most important part of hacking is having as many windows open as possible. Preferably with scrolling multicolored text.

Sponsored by Amazon, the biggest collector of customer/consumer data on the planet.

It's called RF imposition. The Russians used this technique to bug the US Moscow embassy in the 70's. At the time, it required a very large antenna to collect the signals. Basically, the vibrations of the molecule of air (i.e. sound) will make any object in the room also vibrate, and that includes electronic circuit boards. As per Maxwell equations, as mentioned by the chap, a vibrating electronic circuit board, even if switched off, will generate an electronic signal. It then becomes just a matter of collecting that signal.

You can bug me all you want, I have put a sticker tape on my phone's camera. All you can get is me moaning.

what they are doing is super underappreciated. wired devices with embedded systems really need to start insulating components so that no information leaves the device wirelessly

0:45 holy shit that setup!

This is one of the key reasons why following PCB design guidelines For Reduced EMI is so critical :P

If this guy figured it out what has the NSA been able to do for the last 15 years

The critical piece of information he gave is that there has to be an entry point into your network, and for him it was a CV containing malware. 80% of attacks are initiated this way, so - secure your endpoints or get decent mail service guys and gals...

I like how the thumbnail just says motherboard with a guy pointing to a motherboard

By the way this is second time I see red balloon mentioned in security tech, looks like they're about to become pretty big. Good luck guys.

Properly shielding electronics would make them not vulnerable to this hack. But the hack is still quite clever. All it takes is a thin sheet metal cover over the circuit boards to absorb almost all the emitted radio waves.

Six years later and this exploit has yet to be seen in the wild

Feels like Motherboard is cranking up the paranoia on "everything hackers".

You could say that every electronic device has it.... because what they are doing is turning an PCB copper path into transmitting antenna by quickly changing voltages and generating EM field. But there is a catch... you would not normally have connected a printer and a VoIP phone on the same corporate network. Meaning it has to go through either managed switch or a router - in which case there is a high chance that there would be a firewall rule to drop the packet.

You could build all this, or pay Google or Amazon for the feeds they continuously collect from devices you use everyday. Even using a VPN Service is of marginal benefit if you’re going to authenticate to any of your online accounts, as those accounts and your devices registering to networks are going identify you when you authenticate. That said, what this team is doing is really important work, as these devices are very vulnerable, and for all of the dollars we spend securing PC’s and Tablets, a good pen test will show you how vulnerable your voice and printing devices are as well...this team takes it to a level.

The problem with these old hacks, is that they are super easy to defend. People who have sensitive data use better printers, and not stupid ones obviously.

"through the network" is the key phrase. It's easy if you have direct access to the devices that you want to exploit if they're 2 feet away from you, like shown in the video, but if you're outside the network, you'll still need to bypass layers of security to get your software through. Still, pretty cool though.

2 hours after this video was posted that guy disappeared from outside his apartment.

For most, if not all embedded devices it's not possible to flash a microcontroller by JTAG or bootloader without extra external hardware. Also, devices without a dedicated antenna wouldn't be abled to transfer any reliable signal... And what about RF shields...

Actually, all this is already in play in every household. It is very easy to confirm yourself what this video says. Take that part at 2:25 minutes about switching on the microphone on the phone (i think he mentioned switching the input/output ports). What he meant was just switching on the handsfree on the phone on without you knowing and without having the led light come on. When this happens, the microphone now on just completes the induction loop system that is your home. Now all your conversations are reflected in the magnetic modulations in the wiring in your home. All converted to FR signals etc and software radio will pick this up. But more so is that all the buzzes and pings and white noise sounds in your living space will modulate to your thinking, with that microphone in your phone switched on. Hence your thinking can be known by anybody who is listening or anybody who knows how to read tonal modulations. It is like learning a new language and with time you should be able to listen to your thinking in all the appliances around your home. But that is what they are doing at the moment. If there is such a thing as the funtenna software then they will get them downloaded via either your phone line or your internet line. In some cases they are both the same line. If you want to hear this signal coming into your home to switch on the handsfree for a listen in, you can do this by attaching an induction loop receiver to the access point for your phone line. You only need to tape it to the access point gadget - it will pick up the magnetic fluctuations from the phone access point.

But how powerful (in watts) is the transmission

LOL WOW THIS KID FIGURED OUT WHAT SOME OF US HAVE BEEN BRUTALIZING FOR 20 YEARS AND MORE

I would work for this guy for free just to gain knowledge

It kills me how people talk about how they’re so surveilled by the gov but are spied on and robbed (through tech) by their fellow man.

please add part 1 in description so i can see full series thank you

So its not the wifi antenna inside the printer sending the signal? It must be?

I suspected that HR ATS can be hacked trough applications, but didn't think it was as easy as he explained.

1:02 My phone is very insecure. Most of the time, it can't gather the courage to show me notifications when I get a text message. Unfortunately, phones still aren't accepted in therapy.

3:15.....oh god that look....they've already bugged us all burn everything!

6:42 "...and what makes it particularly impressive is how it can transmit data using radio frequencies..." wow!...wait...

the London look X D

I don't think that any of Maxwell's equation has anything to say about the feasibility of hacking embedded devices. It sounds scholarly though.

HE'S SAYING that ANY WIRE that can be made to vibrate mechanically IS an antenna that transmits an EM field...NO NEED for an embedded microphone or RF module...ANYTHING THAT HAS WIRES can be forced to be a transmitter...SCARY! [BTW NO printer manufacturer worries about security...they say: "That's the CUSTOMER'S PROBLEM! We make PRINTERS!]

Those dudes had no idea what to do with themselves with a cute girl that close to them!

Anything that has RF in it thats embedded, uses the ARM archetechture :D. Lifes good

All this has been foretold. And this is the type of crap that makes low tech or no tech so much more desirable.

i'm suspecting my neighbor is running some kind of illegal business famously known as "macau scamming" or "money game". everyday i saw more new recruit coming to his house every morning and never leave the door. they rarely come out and always hiding in house and everyday call for delivery. do you have any tech advice or solution?

Speakers can be microphones. *Takes out buzzer from the motherboard.

Motherboard video with a motherboard in the thumbnail. About time.

THEY HAD A VIPER MK II IN THAT SHELVE !!!AWESOME GUYS!

Thats why I don’t use any technology and none in my possession. I am now commenting through a wooden stick and a rock tie to an owl.

Soooo, what programming languages (and overall knowledge) is required in order to do something like this?

Hey, he used the word "theory" in the correct context! That's more impressive than the skills, or maybe an indicator of why he has them.

Typically the door is wide open. This seems to be a bit excessive.

We had all better behave.

Well, moast of these things run some sort of linux and most devices just pass UI commands trough as root. Although this might not work on all devices. since some of them have a full on metal enclosure to reduce EMI. But then again. There is already a Botnet of IOT so I'm not surprised of anything anymore.

What if an office only used talking cups? How do you tap that?

OK, I know this is not really the point of this video, but the used phone here was officially considered "End of Life" since January 2015. I wonder if his malicious software could still be loaded to currently used models/firmware (considering there are still other 79XX Models which are officially supported by Cisco)

0:55 My boy eating Noodles and Sriracha!...

Can this also be done using fm 📻 instead of am ? Why use such a low band frequency is that to avoid getting caught on car radio ? What’s up with that ?

Nsa has already been doing this years ahead.

Now that's is what i am talking about. Hacking with a tiny mother board.

Trust these guys to reference Neuromancer! Excellent work.

"Cheap radio is called Tom Cruise..." LoL I'm switching to analog phone after watching this.

Why not point a laser beam at the window you want to evesdrop into, then am / fm modulate instead of all that ?

0:55, is that guy in his undewear? hahah

Some of those guys have setups to die for D:

I wonder why signals aren’t encrypted? I guess it could cause latency but signals in which you can easily just read its binary and convert is crazy, and that it’s just a string and not wrapped inside of packets

Next how hackers can steal your lunch from the break room cuz it definitely was not Ron

With such kind of wireless bugging. Is there any device/method to detect such bugging?

I am so happy to have a hacker as a friend.

I'm wondering why there hasn't been a Die Hard 4 scenario yet.. maybe someone is gearing up to make it extra spectacular?..

uploaded by "motherboard", tumbnailof a guy pointing on a motherboard....

Fantana technique is used by military people sending code messages through sound.

Funny how all of the "common office equipment" was "hacked by software only, never touching it"... Yet every one of them had their cases removed, wires hanging out, ribbon cables jumbled out the sides, alligator clips roughly plugged in supplying power, lol... None of this was done elegantly over a network via software. But instead, all of it is hypothetical via hardware mods, physically turning electronics into radios by adding RF transmitters to them... which is the large PCB hanging off of the ribbon and alligator clips. And if we are really pretending that we are sending RF out of circuitry which has no radio, no antenna, no tuner what so ever... and just glossing over the hardware issues there, pretending you can turn any resister, capacitor, and IC into a transmitter... Well, as a radio engineer who develops tower technologies / installs said tech, I can tell you that they would (if they could) transmit all of about a half an inch in distance... at best. Without dedicated amplifiers, tuned antennas, and a frequency capable of both distance and some level of penetration, it would be hopeless. And seeing as how most inexpensive two way radios, which are built for this task, can't even do all that well in a commercial building environment... i highly doubt your magic phone radio made out of software that looks like PCB's hanging off of ribbon cables out of the back of a busted open but never touched office phone is going to do much better. This entire piece is basically fluff...

So is this hack going to be involved one of the next episodes of Mr Robot? Pretty cool!

Yeah it works in "lab" enviroment. But if they would be to do it in real life scenario then theres 1000 things that could cause it to not work, in other words it's not that simple.

Time to put metal shielding in between isolation material when building my house :)

Hacking and Machine learning Engineering are the most researched skills sets on the Market right now.......

In a world that demands certification to prove our qualifications. How does a hacker prove that he is 'white hat', especially in his alone time.

Nice! May work well in open areas but not through bunkers of concrete.

Does this guy send resumes as an .exe?

Finds out massive exploit in phones... Uses a apple keyboard

I had this idea all the time but didn't knew it was possible.

suddenly theme from Syndicate starts to play in my head

How did it start with the resume?

Is there a video talking about security vulnerabilities in hardware like processors and such.

why is motherboard now focusing on fear mongering to the non tech literate? Most hardware hacking relies on being with the machine this means....digital hacking is still a long and time intensive process.

So in essence, if the manufacturer used a dpdt switch that opened up the mic on the handset, you wouldn't be able to listen.

Why are they using the term hacking in this way? It is cracking. Hacking is something good, not evil.

Lol that was right next to the printer! he should demonstrate if bit further away!

wow!, i wish to work and learn from and with these guys they look well talented

walala wow its so intresting how we are vulnerable no matter where...

Ok.. Cool idea and concept... except that those kind or radio frequencies are not able to penetrate anything thicker than a paper wall...

well this is a bit ( no pun intended)scary. this is from 2016 can you imagine what is going on in 2020?

0:59 I didnt know you could bug a racing drone. What are you going to do turn the motors on and off?

Wow white hat hacker is generous teaching others free of cost, hence succeeded in fooling every one that he is not helping his hacker dudes. Nice game man

Would the hacker have to have access to the network that the phone/printer is on, in order to send it the software to produce RF signals of the audio?

Normally phones aren't connected to printers though !

Yah that bit rate is awesome

TEMPEST is a U.S. National Security Agency specification and a NATO certification referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations. TEMPEST covers both methods to spy upon others and how to shield equipment against such spying. The protection efforts are also known as emission security (EMSEC), which is a subset of communications security (COMSEC).

The men in black jacket only smile while enjoying their coffee break..

If this is hacking, why tear open the printer and connecting wires to it.

dont you need a printer which has wireless connectivity (wifi, bluetooth etc ) to hack it and send RF data to hackers pc?

So what should we do here if every technology we touch can be hacked so what's the point here?

This guy has a dream job

but he did not tell or show how much transmitting power needed for it's reciever can turn that signal into data, also he did not say how big or how much recieving sensitivity needed and how long and what kind of enviroment it receive or in there trems sniff that signal, just a reminder an AM signal is very suseptible on noise and jamming.

this is the type of magic i would do if i was a magician lol. best hacker

So cool, btw is this openSource?