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AI can reveal what’s on your screen via signals leaking from cables

Electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your computer and monitor can be intercepted and decoded by AI to reveal what you are looking at

By Matthew Sparkes

26 July 2024

Hackers could view someone’s computer screen by picking up signals from the HDMI cable

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Hackers can intercept electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your monitor and computer and decode what you are seeing on screen with the help of artificial intelligence. Such attacks are probably taking place in the real world, says the team behind the work, but ordinary computer users have little to worry about.

The connection between computers and screens used to be entirely analogue, but today they tend to be digital and transmit data in binary along a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) cable. Whenever…

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