Side-Channel Exfiltration: Timing Attacks

Threat actors can leverage timing attacks to exfiltrate information due to variances in the execution timing for different sub-systems in the ground station (i.e., cryptosystem).

ID: ATAGS-T1208.004
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1208
Tactic: Exfiltration
Targeted Components: Hardware
Responsibility: Shared
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.