{"id":47277,"date":"2022-08-16T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-new-usb-rubber-ducky-is-more-dangerous-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:42:05","slug":"the-new-usb-rubber-ducky-is-more-dangerous-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-new-usb-rubber-ducky-is-more-dangerous-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The new USB Rubber Ducky is more dangerous than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
The USB Rubber Ducky is back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n
The much-loved hacking tool has a new incarnation, released to coincide with the Def Con hacking conference this year, and creator Darren Kitchen was on hand to explain it to The Verge<\/em>. We tested out some of the new features and found that the latest edition is more dangerous than ever.<\/p>\n To the human eye, the USB Rubber Ducky looks like an unremarkable USB flash drive. Plug it into a computer, though, and the machine sees it as a USB keyboard \u2014 which means it accepts keystroke commands from the device just as if a person was typing them in.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything it types is trusted to the same degree as the user is trusted,\u201d Kitchen told me, \u201cso it takes advantage of the trust model built in, where computers have been taught to trust a human. And a computer knows that a human typically communicates with it through clicking and typing.\u201d<\/p>\nWhat is it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n