CAPEC-623: Compromising Emanations Attack
Description
Compromising Emanations (CE) are defined as unintentional signals which an attacker may intercept and analyze to disclose the information processed by the targeted equipment. Commercial mobile devices and retransmission devices have displays, buttons, microchips, and radios that emit mechanical emissions in the form of sound or vibrations. Capturing these emissions can help an adversary understand what the device is doing.
- Likelihood of attack
- Not rated by MITRE
- Typical severity
- Low
- Abstraction
- DetailedA low-level, detailed pattern, often for a particular technology.
Mechanism of attack: Collect and Analyze Information
Prerequisites
- Proximal access to the device.
Skills required
- HighSophisticated attack.
Consequences
- Confidentiality
Read Data
Capture vibrations/emissions from the handset or retransmission device display screen to recreat display information from a distance.
Mitigations
- None are known.