{"id":14167,"date":"2014-10-03T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2014-10-03T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T23:22:21","slug":"turning-usb-peripherals-into-badusb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14167","title":{"rendered":"Turning USB peripherals into BadUSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>BadUSB \u2013 Turning devices evil. <\/b>Once reprogrammed, benign devices can turn malicious in many ways, including:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A device can emulate a keyboard and issue commands on behalf of the logged-in user, for example to exfiltrate files or install malware. Such malware, in turn, can infect the controller chips of other USB devices connected to the computer.<\/li>\n<li>The device can also spoof a network card and change the computer\u2019s DNS setting to redirect traffic.<\/li>\n<li>A modified thumb drive or external hard disk can \u2013 when it detects that the computer is starting up \u2013 boot a small virus, which infects the computer\u2019s operating system prior to boot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/srlabs.de\/badusb\/\">Turning USB peripherals into BadUSB | Security Research Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BadUSB \u2013 Turning devices evil. Once reprogrammed, benign devices can turn malicious in many ways, including: A device can emulate a keyboard and issue commands on behalf of the logged-in user, for example to exfiltrate files or install malware. Such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[347,698,446],"class_list":["post-14167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-malware","tag-security-research","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14168,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}