HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver
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So very important to know... if you have one of these HPs and you take it to Geek Squad or return it to HP or send it out for recycling: it is easily full of your very, very private data, stuff that you never yourself recorded on the machine!
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@scottalanmiller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
So very important to know... if you have one of these HPs and you take it to Geek Squad or return it to HP or send it out for recycling: it is easily full of your very, very private data, stuff that you never yourself recorded on the machine!
I generally never let MY computer go without first DoD'ing the drive.... And if the system died (my ACER) I keep the HDD... nothing was wrong with it any way.
No logger found in my old system -
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Good lord, someone's getting fired + put on trial for that one
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@MattSpeller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
Good lord, someone's getting fired + put on trial for that one
One can only hope.
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@MattSpeller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
Good lord, someone's getting fired + put on trial for that one
Haha, oh man that's funny.
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@scottalanmiller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
@MattSpeller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
Good lord, someone's getting fired + put on trial for that one
One can only hope.
Stop reading my mind before I scroll down far enough to see your reply
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@scottalanmiller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/keylogger.jpg
That password though. . . I mean come on "football23" no capitals, or special characters. . . Would you even need a keylogger for that?
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I have one here.
I made the log file read only.
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@DustinB3403 said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
@scottalanmiller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/keylogger.jpg
That password though. . . I mean come on "football23" no capitals, or special characters. . . Would you even need a keylogger for that?
My guess for a single cracking machine (8 video cards for massively parallel compute), about 2 minutes.
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Yeah I actually just shipped one of these laptops back yesterday!
Good thing it was only a trial device and we did nothing with it.
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@scotth Is the log file showing all keystrokes before you made it readoly?
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@momurda No. Zero byte file at this time. I haven't checked alternative streams yet.
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@scotth said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
@momurda No. Zero byte file at this time. I haven't checked alternative streams yet.
Interesting. While attempting to open the file, I get denied access due to another process.
Edit: It's currently marked as readonly and hidden.
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@scotth said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
@scotth said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
@momurda No. Zero byte file at this time. I haven't checked alternative streams yet.
Interesting. While attempting to open the file, I get denied access due to another process.
Edit: It's currently marked as readonly and hidden.
The executable will delete it and recreate it though.
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Math is probably wrong, but
football23
10 chars password
36 possiblities per character space only using lowercase letters and numbers
36^10 possibilities roundabout.
3,656,158,440,062,976
If you do 100MillionHashes/second,
365,615,644 seconds or 101,559 hours or 4231 days or 11.5 yearsBut since football is in the dictionary it is likely much easier if your algorithm does dictionary before trying random strings. Either way, it is much easier to do if youre recording keystrokes.
@scotth Can you undo the read only bit and reboot that laptop see what happens?
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@momurda It would take about a single day for the average computer to brute force that password.
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@momurda Not right now. I may play around with it tonight. Comodo has a crazy task manager that I'll run on it tonight
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@momurda said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:
But since football is in the dictionary it is likely much easier if your algorithm does dictionary before trying random strings. Either way, it is much easier to do if youre recording keystrokes.
Yep, dictionary word = not even bothering with brute forcing.
