Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH v13) — Question 227

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

Bob performed a Spearphone attack, which specifically targets the loudspeaker functionality of a device to eavesdrop on audio output. The other options, such as SIM card attack and Man-in-the-disk attack, do not directly relate to exploiting the loudspeaker for monitoring purposes, while aLTEr attack focuses on an entirely different aspect of mobile network vulnerabilities.