Body movements can betray your passwords or even the words you’re typing on Zoom calls.
Hackers could be able to guess your passwords and much more by analysing your body position whilst on a video conferencing call, experts have claimed. The way people move their shoulders when typing on Zoom calls can betray what keys they are pressing, allowing hackers to potentially identify specific entries, according to researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio. The team found that when analysing clips of upper arm movements, they could reconstruct the keys people had pressed in Zoom with around 93% accuracy – with Skype and Google Hangouts (now Google Chat) also affected. „From a high-level perspective, this is a concern, which obviously has been overlooked for a while,“ report author and assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at San Antonio Murtuza Jadliwala said. “And actually, to be really frank, we didn’t start this work for COVID-19.
