Headphones can be used to spy on people through a malware that turns it into microphones, researchers announced Wednesday. Headphones, earphones and some types of loudspeakers plugged into a computer can be manipulated and silently turned into eavesdropping microphones through the exploit, researchers at Ben Gurion University (BGU)2 in Israel explained in the paper SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit. The software that makes this possible is called SPEAKE(a)R, and it can be used to spy, even when the computer doesn’t have a microphone or if a mic is muted, taped or turned off. “We demonstrated it
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