New electromagnetic attack on headphones

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This one is technically very interesting:

InjectEave differs from conventional electromagnetic eavesdropping because it does not simply listen for signals a device naturally emits. Instead, the attacker transmits a carefully selected radio-frequency signal toward the target. Nonlinear electronic components inside the device, including amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, power converters, and switching transistors, can unintentionally mix internal analog signals with that injected carrier. The resulting radio emissions can then contain information about the original signal.

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Nice portable kit:

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Full research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.04785

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The RF equivalent of the old attack of shining a laser on a window, detecting the reflected signal, and extracting from that signal any vibrations on the window caused by sound in the room (and from that reconstructing the original audio signal)? Laser microphone

… with the advantage that the attack in the OP could work even if the target room has no windows.

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