Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v12) — Question 294

Kate dropped her phone and subsequently encountered an issue with the phone's internal speaker. Thus, she is using the phone's loudspeaker for phone calls and other activities. Bob, an attacker, takes advantage of this vulnerability and secretly exploits the hardware of Kate's phone so that he can monitor the loudspeaker's output from data sources such as voice assistants, multimedia messages, and audio files by using a malicious app to breach speech privacy.

What is the type of attack Bob performed on Kate in the above scenario?

Answer options

• A. SIM card attack
• B. aLTEr attack
• C. Spearphone attack
• D. Man-in-the-disk attack

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer, Spearphone attack, refers to an attack where an unauthorized party uses a malicious application to access and monitor audio output from a device's loudspeaker. The other options do not specifically relate to exploiting the loudspeaker or monitoring audio communications in this manner.