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New File Notification Attack Lets Hackers Track User Activity Across Linux, Windows and macOS

Cybersecurity NewsSeptember 28, 20264 min read

A cross-platform side-channel attack that abuses file-notification services to monitor user activity on Linux, Windows and macOS. The technique turns inotify, ReadDirectoryChangesW, and FSEvents, which alert applications when files are changed, into a surveillance mechanism requiring no elevated privileges. The study, “File Notification Attacks: Templating and Exploiting Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification Systems on Linux, […] The post New File Notification Attack Lets Hackers Track User Activity Across Linux, Windows and macOS appeared first on Cyber Security News.

A cross-platform side-channel attack that abuses file-notification services to monitor user activity on Linux, Windows and macOS. The technique turns inotify, ReadDirectoryChangesW, and FSEvents, which alert applications when files are changed, into a surveillance mechanism requiring no elevated privileges. The study, “File Notification Attacks: Templating and Exploiting Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification Systems on Linux, Windows, and macOS,” comes from researchers at…

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