Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of Negev have found a way to take a run-of-the-mill USB device and use it to leak data from an air-gapped computers via RF signals. Academics with the school’s Cyber Security Research Labs division claim they’ve come up with software, dubbed USBee, that can modulate binary data over electromagnetic waves, and then transmit...

Stealing data from air-gapped computers is one of the great exercises in computer security: advanced attackers covet what’s stored on these isolated machines, while researchers try to figure out the novel ways adversaries could jump those gaps. The latest effort doesn’t involve USBs, heat, acoustical mesh networks, or decoding radio signals. Instead, researchers from Ben-Gurion...