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The keylogger is inside the keyboard

2017-11-07 19:45:47.226294+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

MantisTek GK2's Keylogger Is A Warning Against Cheap Gadgets.

Updated, 11/7/2017, 8:40am PT: An earlier version of the article stated that the keyboard's software was sending key presses. However, in a closer look, it seems that the Cloud Driver software doesn't send the key presses to the Alibaba server but only how many times each key has been pressed.

But still... cheap Chinese knock-off mechanical keyboard comes with configuration software that installs a driver that sends keypress data back to cloud servers.

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