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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
There's long been much handwringing around Halloween around the prospect of pins, needles and razor blades being hidden in candy and passed out to children. On the very rare occasion this does happen, the outcome is normally little more than some superficial cuts. However, for 2019, [MG] has developed an altogether different surreptitious payload to be delivered to trick or treaters.
Consisting of a small USB device named DemonSeed, it's a HID attack gadget in the genre of the BadUSB devices we've seen previously. When plugged in, the unit emulates a USB keyboard and can be programmed to enter whatever keystrokes are necessary to take over the machine or exfiltrate data. Files are available on Github for those looking to replicate the device.
The trick here is in the delivery. [MG] has produced a large quantity of these small devices, packaging them in anti-static wrappers. The wrappers contain a note instructing children to insert them into their parent's work computers to access "game codes", and to share them with their friends while hiding them from adults.
The idea of children brazenly plugging hostile USB devices into important computers is enough to make any IT manager's head spin, though we suspect [MG] doesn't actually intend to deploy these devices in anger. It serves as a great warning about the potential danger of such an attack, however. Stay sharp, and keep your office door locked this October 31st!
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday November 04 2019, @06:05PM (2 children)
News story from reliable source or I'm sorry I don't believe it happened.
(And that's OK. You owe me no proof. I owe you no credibility since many reliable sources have published that on deep searches there has NEVER been a published case found in medical literature that was verified true.)
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(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 09 2019, @09:02PM (1 child)
You need to check police records, not medical journals. Here's one from London, Ontario, this Halloween: Razor blade found in chocolate bar [www.cbc.ca]
(area code 519 is southwest Ontario).
Scary stuff, but most cases will never get into medical journals or official stats because, unlike, say, cases of necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) there's no mandatory reporting. Same as even severe drug reactions don't show up in stats unless you take the time to file a report , and that's usually only as a prelude to a lawsuit.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday November 11 2019, @04:57PM
Sure, and you supplied a name above too. I'm not saying it can't happen. I am saying that such incidents are never widespread and when they are done they always seem to be singular incidents against a virtually-always-known target. They are usually motivated by pranks or jealousy.
The notion that you have to fear the strange person giving you something sweet for free (on Halloween) is an attempt to cause a moral panic. One should then either never accept any food or treats any time any where any when because you don't know.... or maybe one should relax just a little.
(Though that can be hard to do when you've known one of the exceptional cases, sure.)
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