Profiling Bad USB Attacks by Anitha A and Payal R K at BSides Toronto 2020

As of April 2020, 59 percent of the global population uses the Internet and a very small fraction of these people know that BadUSBs aren't restricted to mass storage devices with infected files on them. Today, there are normal-looking USBs that are capable of running malicious programs to exfiltrate most critical data on a computer without a single mouse click. All that needs to be done in order to achieve this is, be connected to a USB port. In this paper we will talk about the capability of a device called WHID (Wi-Fi injector) and what can be done to detect and investigate it.