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No big deal... Kremlin hackers 'jumped air-gapped networks' to pwn US power utilities

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Re: More detail please

@DougS,

There was a research paper a while back where they were able to re-program the microcontroller in some USB flash drives to turn them into a keyboard emulator.

What do you know, it was on El Reg...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/31/black_hat_hackers_drive_truck_through_hole_in_usb_security/

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