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Plug and Pray? Virta Labs Using Power Analysis to Spot IoT Compromises

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2015-08-17

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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Virta Labs' PowerGuard is a plug-in outlet device that detects malicious software on IoT and medical devices by analyzing subtle changes in power consumption; demonstrated at Black Hat, it can alert administrators via a cloud dashboard without installing software on endpoints but is monitoring-only and currently requires a 1:1 deployment per device, limiting scalability.

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