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title: Hackers Could Steal your Skype Password by Listening to your Keystrokes
description: However, attackers don't even have to be nearby to steal your info.
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# [Hackers Could Steal your Skype Password by Listening to your Keystrokes](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/hackers-could-steal-your-skype-password-by-listening-to-your-keystrokes)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Fri | Oct 21, 2016 | 7:00 AM Z

However, attackers don't even have to be nearby to steal your info.

[Graham Cluley Explains:](https://www.grahamcluley.com/whats-noise-sound-attackers-logging-keystrokes-skype/)

> Attackers could theoretically leverage Skype to steal a user's passwords by collecting and analyzing the sound of their keystrokes.
> 
> The method of attack developed by researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome, University of Padua, and UC Irvine isn't like most sound-based keylogging efforts, which generally require that the attacker [makes use of other connected devices](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/20/iphone-spyware-snoop-desktop-typing/), maintains [close proximity to the target computer](http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-devise-method-to-monitor-your-keystrokes-using-wifi-signals/), or [first infects it with malware](https://www.grahamcluley.com/malware-air-gap-computer-sound/).
> 
> Instead this attack relies on an actor remotely eavesdropping on the acoustic emanations of a user's keystrokes and analyzing them in order to reconstruct the target's input.
> 
> Sounds complicated, but as the researchers note in their [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.09359.pdf) - entitled "Don't Skype & Type (S&T)! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP" - it's easy enough to do during a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call like Skype.

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