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

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:... Weiterlesen: New File Notification Attack Lets Hackers Track User Activity Across …