Detailedlikelihood: Lowseverity: HighStable

CAPEC-634Probe Audio and Video Peripherals

Abstraction
Detailed
Status
Stable
Likelihood
Low
Severity
High

Description

The adversary exploits the target system's audio and video functionalities through malware or scheduled tasks. The goal is to capture sensitive information about the target for financial, personal, political, or other gains which is accomplished by collecting communication data between two parties via the use of peripheral devices (e.g. microphones and webcams) or applications with audio and video capabilities (e.g. Skype) on a system.

Related weaknesses· 1

CWE-267

MITRE ATT&CK crosswalk· 2

T1123: Audio CaptureT1125: Video Capture

Related attack patterns· 2

CAPEC-651 (ChildOf)CAPEC-545 (ChildOf)

Exploits1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessPrivilege Defined With Unsafe Actionscwe-267100%live

Related to2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
TechniqueAudio Capturet1123100%live
TechniqueVideo Capturet1125100%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CAPEC
Eavesdropping
Technique
Audio Capture
CAPEC
Eavesdropping on a Monitor
CAPEC
Peripheral Footprinting
Technique
Video Capture
CAPEC
Sniffing Network Traffic
Sourced from MITRE CAPEC. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, SQUR.