New article: Through the looking glass: webcam interception and protection in kernel mode

Today we publish a short article by Ronen Slavin and Michael Maltsev, researchers at


Reason Software


, one of the partners of

VB2018

.

In the article, Ronen and Michael dive into the video capturing internals on

Windows

, and explain how this can be used by a malicious actor to steal images recorded by a computer’s webcam.

They then explain how one could build a kernel driver that protects such images, but still allows their use by trusted programs such as

Skype

.

You can read the article by Ronen and Michael in both

HTML

and

PDF

format.

After driver installation.

Those interested in the subject of secretly recording webcam streams should also watch the

VB2016 presentation

in which Patrick Wardle looked at this subject on

Macs

.