020. PlaceRaider Visual Malware Turns Smart Phones into Spy Equipment. posted by Asura July 20, 2013 The US Naval Surface Warfare Center has created an Android app that secretly records your environment and reconstructs it as a 3D virtual model for a malicious user to browse. Today Robert Templeman at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, and a few pals at Indiana University reveal an entirely new class of ‘visual malware’ capable of recording and reconstructing a user’s environment in 3D. This then allows the theft of virtual objects such as financial information, data on computer screens and identity-related information. PlaceRaider: The Military Smartphone Malware Designed to Steal Your Life Yet the possibilities of what malware can see through a camera have been understudied. This paper introduces a novel visual malware called PlaceRaider, which allows remote attackers to engage in remote reconnaissance and what we call virtual theft. Through completely opportunistic use of the camera on the phone and other sensors, PlaceRaider constructs rich, three dimensional models of indoor environments. PlaceRaider: Virtual Theft in Physical Spaces with Smartphones About Author. Asura is a Spiritual Warrior, Sustainability Researcher and an Occupy Activist whom upholds the dream of building a new world rather than requesting one. His most widely held beliefs and life missions are that education, unity consciousness and providing people with the ability to produce resources will change life on Gaia immensely.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:59:13 +0000