What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic one?

Re:What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic... by blockoperation on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:55AM (#12693972)

Block layer or filesystem driver vulnerabilities would be even better – no special hardware needed. Just buy a load of cheap flash drives, copy over your malicious partition table or filesystem, and you're set.

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Re:What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic... by Palomides on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:59AM (#12694007)

that seems a little optimistic, I figure there must be some moderately obscure device drivers that get much less scrutiny.

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Re:What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic... by Kalium on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:33PM (#12696224)

I suspect a lot of machines still have old floppy disk drivers...

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