Secure Your Organization’s Data from Mouse Jack Attack

Computers and hackers have a symbiotic relationship between each other, while the former helps in providing help in the development the latter seeks to find out faults in the system architecture and hence exploit the vulnerability. Although all the hackers cannot be labeled as having the sole intention of creating chaos and disruption (Black Hat Hackers), there are good elements as well which work towards securing the network security and in the process making it more robust and defendable against future attacks. The term hacking has gained a very shady reputation in the minds of the people and it seems that whenever they recall the term hacking, it arouses suspicions about their data and personal details getting stolen from their secure accounts or from their lockers.

Human have a characteristic feature that they want everything easily and it is this attitude that often leads to carelessness and absent mindedness. This was the case which happened with a guy from the United States who hailed from Boston, where his bank accounts got compromised due to some malicious code that was injected into his desktop through the help of wireless mouse. This type of attack is called Mouse Jack attack. The type can take place if the device is connected to a mouse or a desktop. This is quite a dangerous scenario for your organization as all the device that have existed comes with a mouse or a keyboard. Hacking professional from Bihar are experts in dealing and tackling these kind of problems.

This type of attack was discovered by Marc Newlin, a security researcher with Bastille Company. He discovered that he was able to extract data from computer devices with the help of a wireless mouse and a connected keyboard. He invented that he could put in the malicious code by capturing the keystroke or he was able to put a Mouse jack Key logger inside a machine by injecting some scripts through Mouse jack shell. There has been a lot of big Multinational Corporation that have been severely affected by these unseen and unwanted threats. Companies like Microsoft, Logitech, Amazon, Basic, Dell, HP, Gigabyte and Lenovo. All these corporations have well built security infrastructure and security personnel who are deployed around the clock to protect the essential data and information, despite being so heavily guarded with the latest technology, it is quite common for any small organization to get affected.

A normal wireless mouse which is not connected with the Bluetooth sends some keystrokes to the connected receiver machine and that receiver machine converts those signals to readable signals which are read by an operating system. The signals are not encrypted and these can be manipulated by radio dongles. A threat actor first searches for vulnerable devices and then looks for any vulnerability that is there in the system. The hacker then cleverly sniffs the packets and reads the signals sent by it. As all organization computers are interconnected with each other, accessing any one device can result in the stealing of the data of entire organization resulting in a data theft or data breach.

David M. is a 31-year-old tradesperson who is highly into Cybersecurity and hacking.He enjoys spending his leisure reading hacking instances and how the companies overcame them.