Most users lock their computer screens when they temporarily step away from them. While this seems like a good security measure, it isn’t good enough, a security researcher demonstrated this week.
Security researcher Rob Fuller has discovered a unique attack method that can steal PC credentials from Windows and Mac computers.Fuller’s attack is effective against locked computers on which the user has already logged in.
KeySweeper – Disguised as a USB wall charger, the KeySweeper hack is a very well concealed device which uses wireless connections to identify and spy on local Microsoft wireless keyboards. And, by monitoring keystrokes, KeySweeper can quickly obtain login details and transmit these back to.
Fuller used USB-based Ethernet adapters, for which he modified the firmware code to run special software that sets the plug-and-play USB device as the network gateway, DNS, and WPAD(Web Proxy Auto-discovery Protocol ) servers on the computer it’s connected to.
- Aug 21, 2017 Supporting the USB 2.0 standard, this hacking device works with WEP, WPA, WPA2, TKIP and even AES encryption. It has a wide compatibility for operating systems it works with as well. The hacking device can run on Linux, Windows versions from 2000 up until 8 and MacOS 10.5 and 10.5.
- Apr 26, 2018 2. Move the shortcut you created from the folder Tools to the Folder Hacking USB. Copy and paste the files onto a USB device. As you can see it is very easy for someone to create a hacking USB to steal all your passwords which it is why you should be very careful when saving sensitive credentials such as bank details on your.
- Sep 08, 2017 iTerm2 is the terminal app that you can install on the Mac device and hence get the better advantages rather than the pre-installed terminal of the Mac. As we know that most of the hacking tasks are carried through the commands that are generally processed inside the terminal only. The better terminal with more control features could be a great.
- Sep 09, 2016 The time it takes for a USB device to capture credentials from a system using this attack is around 13 seconds. He used two ethernet dongles USB Armory and Hak5 Turtle. Fuller successfully tested his attack against Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 10 (Enterprise and Home), OS X El Capitan, and OS X Mavericks.
The attack is possible because most computers will automatically install any plug-and-play USB device.
USB is Plug-and-Play. This means that even if a system is locked out, the device still gets installed,” Fuller wrote on his blog .
“Now, I believe there are restrictions on what types of devices are allowed to install at a locked out state on newer operating systems (Win10/El Capitan), but Ethernet/LAN is definitely on the white list.”
Mdified device includes software that intercepts these credentials and saves them to an SQLite database. The password is in its hashed state, but this can be cracked using currently available technology
According to Fuller, computers in a locked state still generate network traffic, allowing for the account name and hashed password to be extracted. The time it takes for a USB device to capture credentials from a system using this attack is around 13 seconds. He used two ethernet dongles USB Armory and Hak5 Turtle.
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Fuller successfully tested his attack against Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 10 (Enterprise and Home), OS X El Capitan, and OS X Mavericks.
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He says the attack was successful against Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 10 (Enterprise and Home), OS X El Capitan, and OS X Mavericks. He is about to test linux OS.