Raspberry Pi Can Detect Malware By Scanning For Electromagnetic Waves

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo, which states that a team of researchers at France's Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems created an anti-malware system centered around aRaspberry Pi that scans devices for electromagnetic waves. According to Tom's Hardware, the security device uses an oscilloscope and H-Field probe to pick up anomalies in the waves that computers are under attack.

CNN is used to determine if the data gathered indicates a threat. Researchers claim that they could record 100,000 measurement traces from internet of things devices that had been compromised by genuine samples and predicted three generic and one benign classes with an accuracy as high as 99.82%. No software is required and the device you're scanning doesn't need to be manipulated. Bad actors won't be able to hide malicious code from detection software using obfuscation techniques. Our method does not require any changes to the device. It can be deployed without any overhead. Researchers wrote in the paper that the approach they used has an advantage that it can't be detected.