Series 9 – Episode 4 – Leveraging electromagnetic emanations for IoT malware classification
Summary
IoT and embedded technologies use numerous customised firmware and hardware, without taking into consideration security issues, which make them an attractive attack surface for cybercriminals, especially malware authors. Marion and his fellow team members present a novel, robust and promising approach of leveraging electromagnetic emanations to identify the kinds of malware that are targeting devices such as the Raspberry Pi. The team recorded traces of more than 100K measurements from IoT devices infected with various malware samples and realistic benign activity. Marion goes on to explain what experiments/analysis he performed, the conclusions he drew from the analysis and the particular parts of this project that he personally found interesting. To hear more about malware, the IoT and much more, you can listen to Electronic Specifier’s interview with Damien Marion on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.