Another keylogger discovered in HP laptops

Posted on Wednesday, December 13 2017 @ 10:36 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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Earlier this year, HP laptops were in the news as security researchers discovered a keylogger in the audio driver of over two dozen models of HP laptops and tablets. Now the company is hit by almost exactly the same news as security researcher Michael Myng discovered keylogging code in the driver software of Synatics touchpads.

This piece of software is used by dozens of HP laptops. The keylogger is not activated by default but starts logging every keystroke after a single registry change:
The keylogger was apparently included for debugging during development and is disabled by default. However, a user or software with administrative privileges could activate the keylogger by making a registry change—potentially remotely using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or PowerShell scripts. Once turned on, it captures keystrokes and generates a trace log file.
HP provides details and updates over here.

Via: ARS Technica


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