USB Wall Charger logs, relays keystrokes

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Paul B.

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This is simply an open-source mash-up. It is just a small taste of the invasiveness we are up against from government, commercial and private sources. Some need to reconsider using a wireless keyboard.

Paul


This USB wall charger secretly logs keystrokes from Microsoft wireless keyboards nearby

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Image Credit: Samy Kamkar
January 12, 2015 10:55 PM
Emil Protalinski



Privacy and security researcher Samy Kamkar has released a keylogger for Microsoft wireless keyboards cleverly hidden in what appears to be a rather large, but functioning USB wall charger. Called KeySweeper, the stealthy Arduino-based device can sniff, decrypt, log, and report back all keystrokes — saving them both locally and online....(con't)
 
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