USB Chip exploited to steal data & hijack computers

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USB (Universal Serial Bus) is used in computer devices, which is meant for the connection of the devices and it is also used for the transfer of data.

Some times these USBs are added with the deadly viruses and it can affect your computer with such viruses. Now most of the people have knowledge about this deadly virus and they adopt the precautionary measures and use anti-virus software for the detection of the viruses and the malware being present in the USB & can be transferred with the data.

If the malware is added in the firmware of the USB then there is no antivirus program, which can scan the chip of the USB drive. The manipulated USB can affect your computer and you do not know about it & it can enhance severe security risk for your computer.

USB Chip

USB Chip

The Black Hat Hackers conference was conducted in Las Vegas in which the researchers employed in the Berlin data security company, Security Research Labs, gave their demonstration for the controlling of the computer remotely by using the USB device. They also described what is the horror scenario and the user can have the knowledge about it.

The people should know that malware concealed in the firmware of the device and it is added with lot of information and the function of USB. It provides information regarding plugged in by user as the storage device, camera, keyboard, mobile phone or the network card.

The firmware of the USB, which is manipulated with virus, as can damage the compute system or make it fool as keyboard and log all keystrokes. It is also added with the personal information and passwords. This is also added with the network card and it can copy the data stored in this system along with the data traffic. Then it can send this information to the hacker without giving any notice to you.

So if the firmware of a USB has been manipulated it can fool the computer system to think of itself as a keyboard and log all the keystrokes, including your passwords and personal information. In another scenario, it can disguise itself as a network card and copy all your data traffic and send it to hackers without your notice.

They have given the demos of both these scenarios at Black Hat Hackers conference and there are different amount of manipulation options, which can make things horrible. The security experts emphasized that it is much needed to upgrade the standard of USB and it can also be added different additional capabilities to provide the security. Presently, there is no option for your protection for this data theft. If this is not sufficient, then they should stop using of all kind of USB devices.

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