03.12.2013 - 16:58 [ ars technica ]

Scientist-developed malware covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound

The researchers, from Germany‘s Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics, recently disclosed their findings in a paper published in the Journal of Communications. It came a few weeks after a security researcher said his computers were infected with a mysterious piece of malware that used high-frequency transmissions to jump air gaps. The new research neither confirms nor disproves Dragos Ruiu‘s claims of the so-called badBIOS infections, but it does show that high-frequency networking is easily within the grasp of today‘s malware.