The Threat on Your Desk: Building an Evil USB-C Dock

Re:The Threat on Your Desk: Building an Evil USB-C Dock by rektide on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:04AM (#35117559)

lsusb will tell you what it is pretending to be on a real os. Everyone else is hosed & hopeless.

Even still, it could be intercepting & mitm'ing your devices. There are some potential advanced games here. But without also having a network device to exfiltrate out on, it seems pointless. As soon as you have USB networking the risk skyrockets though.

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Re:The Threat on Your Desk: Building an Evil USB-C Dock by throwaway742 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:30AM (#35117695)

That assumes it is constantly advertising itself. If it say reconfigured itself every hour for a couple seconds the odds of seeing in on any given lsusb are quite low.

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Re:The Threat on Your Desk: Building an Evil USB-C Dock by rektide on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:15PM (#35122910)

Good call. That would be pretty suspicious unto itself, but would require different style monitoring... Watching udev I guess.

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