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    HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

      Glad that I just returned the demo we received, although I don't recall what model it was.

      But it can recall an awful lot 😉

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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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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        • gjacobseG
          gjacobse @scottalanmiller
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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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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller
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            Good lord, someone's getting fired + put on trial for that one

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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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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              • coliverC
                coliver
                last edited by scottalanmiller

                https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/05/hp-laptops-covert-log-every-keystroke-researchers-warn/

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @MattSpeller
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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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                  • travisdh1T
                    travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      keylogger.jpg

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

                        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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                          scotth
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                          I have one here.
                          I made the log file read only.
                          Let's have a little fun.

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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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:

                            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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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
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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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                              • momurdaM
                                momurda @scotth
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                                @scotth Is the log file showing all keystrokes before you made it readoly?

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                                  scotth @momurda
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                                  @momurda No. Zero byte file at this time. I haven't checked alternative streams yet.

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                                    scotth @scotth
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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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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @scotth
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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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                                      • momurdaM
                                        momurda
                                        last edited by momurda

                                        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 years

                                        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.

                                        @scotth Can you undo the read only bit and reboot that laptop see what happens?

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403 @momurda
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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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                                            scotth @momurda
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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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