Hackers publish the code, which can infect millions of USB devices

Hackers publish the code, which can infect millions of USB devices

In July 2014, it was reported the massive security hole, BadUSB which provides the leverage to hackers to hijack millions of USB devices, range from printers to keyboards and thumb drives. At that time, researchers admitted that flaw didn't publish their BadUSB exploit code, but now two hackers published their code on Github after working on it. Now it's the responsibility of device makers to fix the flaw before millions of users face the problem with their USB devices and peripherals. BadUSB, is not easy to fix, so that it is really serious problem.

If you will go through the original story of July 2014, than you will know that, every USB device has a microcontroller, which is a small chip and it act as interface between the device and the host. Sometimes this chip has firmware, which can be reprogrammed to do nefarious acts, like; infecting your PC with malware, logging your keystrokes and even more worse. BadUSB is dangerous because of one key reason as; it is very hard to detect even virus scanners are unable to do this.

Karsten Nohl and friends from the SR Labs are the guys, who originally discovered BadUSB an

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