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#days Security & Risk Conference: Fabian Mihailowitsch

Detecting Hardware Keyloggers

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Detecting Hardware Keyloggers details #days Security & Risk Conference: Fabian Mihailowitsch.

Summary

Demonstrates software techniques to detect inline PS/2 and USB hardware keyloggers using timing measurement and USB behavior analysis. Covers vendors KeyCarbon and KeyGhost, brute-force password unlock, scan-code-set defeat, and a kernel-module proof of concept, referencing the 2005 Sumitomo Bank hardware keylogger incident.

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