Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and the University of South Florida have released a paper on WindTalker, a "practical keystroke inference framework" that gives hackers the ability to "infer the sensitive keystrokes" on mobile devices through "WiFi-based side-channel information," Fermat's Library reports. The paper, entitled "When CSI Meets Public WiFi: Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals," details the researchers' case study of the "practicality of the password inference towards Alipay," ultimately finding that hackers can recover keys with a high rate of success, the report states.
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