Security researchers at the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, have discovered a new cyber-attack technique that they have named “SATAn”.
If you have guessed from the name that perhaps the new technique has something to with the SATA storage interface, then you would be right. The new SATAn method is basically a way to steal information and data from air-gapped systems by using the SATA cables as a wireless antenna to transmit data and information from a compromised PC on to a receiver somewhere close.
For those unaware, air-gapped systems are basically devices that are lonely entities, as they are not part of any network. The study has found that around the 6 GHz frequency band is where the transmission via SATA cables is the most effective.
Here's how the security researches at the Gurion University of the Negev describe their findings about SATAn:
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