YellowKey reportedly works in Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and 2025, but not in Windows 10.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    6 hours ago

    Why people are saying that the files being deleted indicate a backdoor? This is clearly to be executed while having access to the laptop. So it’s not like I’m tricking someone into connecting the USB drive and after the PC is infected I want to get rid of the evidence. If some FBI agent is using a USB drive to unlock a laptop at work, what’s the point of making the drive single use?

    This could also be part of the PoC created by the researcher, not part of the backdoor.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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      9 minutes ago

      They said in the article they recreated it on their own. So it couldn’t just be the proof of concept.

      If some FBI agent is using a USB drive to unlock a laptop at work, what’s the point of making the drive single use?

      Under cover/covert operations do actually happen.