A4 Article in conference proceedings
Position : On Potential Malware & New Attack Vectors for Internet-of-Brains (IoB) (2024)

Lahtinen, T., Costin, A., & Suarez-Tangil, G. (2024). Position : On Potential Malware & New Attack Vectors for Internet-of-Brains (IoB). In EuroS&PW 2024 : Proceedings of the 9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (pp. 545-553). IEEE. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00066

JYU authors or editors

Publication details

All authors or editors: Lahtinen, Tuomo; Costin, Andrei; Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo

Parent publication: EuroS&PW 2024 : Proceedings of the 9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops

Place and date of conference: Vienna, Austria, 8.-12.7.2024

ISBN: 979-8-3503-6732-4

eISBN: 979-8-3503-6729-4

Journal or series: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops

ISSN: 2768-0649

eISSN: 2768-0657

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 20/08/2024

Pages range: 545-553

Number of pages in the book: 744

Publisher: IEEE

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00066

Publication open access: Not open

Publication channel open access: 

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/98694

Abstract

The Internet of Brains (IoB) is a relatively recent and still emerging computing paradigm connecting different Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) devices to networks, smartphones, cloud, software, and machine-learning models. IoB and BCI usage is expected to grow increasingly thanks to R&D, marketing, and commodification efforts by companies such as Neuralink (with their invasive BCI) and Meta (with their non-invasive BCI coupled to VR/XR). This paper presents a position view on existing traditional attack vectors but also introduces and discusses several new attack vectors targeting IoB that could be abused by malware and ransomware actors in the near future. This work aims to initiate and facilitate discussions within the researchers' and practitioners' communities to study such emerging threats as early as possible, considering that IoB and BCI connect critical elements such as the users' brains to possibly hostile environment(s) such as computer networks and the Internet.

Keywords: cyber security; information networks; Internet; malware; computer viruses; user interfaces

Free keywords: attack vectors; brain-computer interface; CPS; cyber-physical systems; cybersecurity; internet of brains; malware

Contributing organizations

Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2024

Preliminary JUFO rating: 1