November 22, 2016

Poison Tap

  Samy Kamkar had built a device that is called Poison Tap. It is a Raspberry Pi Zero which plugs into the victims USB port. The device that looks like an Ethernet connection, your computer inherently trusts this connection and this is where the exploit starts. ” emulates an Ethernet device over USB (or Thunderbolt) hijacks all Internet traffic from the machine (despite being a low priority/unknown network interface) siphons and