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Hackers Could Break into Your Monitor to Spy on You and Manipulate Your Pixels
- tedunangst 10y ago> Essentially, if a hacker can get you to visit a malicious website or click on a phishing link, they can then do any goddamn thing they want.
- NKCSS 10y agoThey still need a RCE to alter the firmware of the monitor als far als I can tell... Cool hack, but if you have a RCE, there's better stuff to do...
- RubyPinch 10y agoit is the RCE, from the sounds of it > We demonstrate a multi-stage monitor implant capable of loading arbitrary code and data encoded in specially crafted images and documents through active monitor snooping. This code infiltration technique can be implemented through a single pixel, or through subtle variations of a large number of pixels.
- NKCSS 10y agoThat's the activation after the firmware has been altered...
- mjgoins 10y agoI think they misspelled Ang Cui's name in this article.
- woliveirajr 10y agoThis could also be used to circumvent those HDMI protections, DRMs and so on, no? If the access is really on a pixel- base, you could recover 1:1 each frame of the 4k 3D movie you're watching.