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Spoof an Ethernet adapter on USB, and you can sniff credentials from locked laptops

Peter 26

Inconspicuous dongle

On a side note. I don't get the point of these dongles looking like USB Ethernet Adaptors. If the idea is to leave the dongle connected to a LAN for remote access then it needs to plugged in permanently. You're not going to leave the laptop there permanently are you? So it ends up plugged into a power socket USB charger, looking really suspicious having a network cable going towards the power sockets. I guess you could plug it into a desktop if they have any, but again slightly suspicious to an IT person. Wouldn't it be better to make it look like a POE adaptor, even act like one?

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