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Mike Ritland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2565 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

OMG cable, right? Looks exactly like one of the many USB cables you've got. And if it doesn't, I got a whole bunch more hair to guarantee it does.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

OMG cable, right? Looks exactly like one of the many USB cables you've got. And if it doesn't, I got a whole bunch more hair to guarantee it does.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Yeah, I mean, think about all the different, and it's, think of it as camouflage, basically. It's like, what's the environment? Do they use white cables? Do they use USB-A, USB-C? Is it a Mac shop? Cool, they're going to have lightning on one end, maybe, if they got the older phones, if it's, Newer phones, cool, and USB-C. And it's really about blending in to fit what's already in place.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Yeah, I mean, think about all the different, and it's, think of it as camouflage, basically. It's like, what's the environment? Do they use white cables? Do they use USB-A, USB-C? Is it a Mac shop? Cool, they're going to have lightning on one end, maybe, if they got the older phones, if it's, Newer phones, cool, and USB-C. And it's really about blending in to fit what's already in place.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Yeah, I mean, think about all the different, and it's, think of it as camouflage, basically. It's like, what's the environment? Do they use white cables? Do they use USB-A, USB-C? Is it a Mac shop? Cool, they're going to have lightning on one end, maybe, if they got the older phones, if it's, Newer phones, cool, and USB-C. And it's really about blending in to fit what's already in place.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

So you could swap it out or you can do other things. There's a lot of different... and techniques you can have when you have a device that is physically invisible and just hiding in plain sight. So that's the physical aspect of it. And that took me a huge amount of time of shrinking down the components, which I will describe in just a second.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

So you could swap it out or you can do other things. There's a lot of different... and techniques you can have when you have a device that is physically invisible and just hiding in plain sight. So that's the physical aspect of it. And that took me a huge amount of time of shrinking down the components, which I will describe in just a second.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

So you could swap it out or you can do other things. There's a lot of different... and techniques you can have when you have a device that is physically invisible and just hiding in plain sight. So that's the physical aspect of it. And that took me a huge amount of time of shrinking down the components, which I will describe in just a second.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

But shrinking it down, it just took absurd amounts of time just designing the PCB that goes in here. And then beyond that, just the entire process of integrating the PCB into a cable. That just took... like a year, basically.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

But shrinking it down, it just took absurd amounts of time just designing the PCB that goes in here. And then beyond that, just the entire process of integrating the PCB into a cable. That just took... like a year, basically.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

But shrinking it down, it just took absurd amounts of time just designing the PCB that goes in here. And then beyond that, just the entire process of integrating the PCB into a cable. That just took... like a year, basically.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Yeah, exactly. So, the PCB inside of here, what it does is when you plug it into a... It's primarily targeting laptops and desktops. Um... It's got a PCB that will wirelessly kind of light up and it'll connect back to you. There's so many different ways you can configure it, but this wireless connection allows remote connection into the cable, get a full web UI in your web browser, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Yeah, exactly. So, the PCB inside of here, what it does is when you plug it into a... It's primarily targeting laptops and desktops. Um... It's got a PCB that will wirelessly kind of light up and it'll connect back to you. There's so many different ways you can configure it, but this wireless connection allows remote connection into the cable, get a full web UI in your web browser, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Yeah, exactly. So, the PCB inside of here, what it does is when you plug it into a... It's primarily targeting laptops and desktops. Um... It's got a PCB that will wirelessly kind of light up and it'll connect back to you. There's so many different ways you can configure it, but this wireless connection allows remote connection into the cable, get a full web UI in your web browser, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Whether it's on your phone or laptop. It can even connect out to the internet, and you can connect to this thing from anywhere on earth if you do it that way. What's it do, though? You've got to control this wirelessly.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Whether it's on your phone or laptop. It can even connect out to the internet, and you can connect to this thing from anywhere on earth if you do it that way. What's it do, though? You've got to control this wirelessly.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

Whether it's on your phone or laptop. It can even connect out to the internet, and you can connect to this thing from anywhere on earth if you do it that way. What's it do, though? You've got to control this wirelessly.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

No. You've still got to have a wireless network it can connect to, or you bring one in. Okay. If I open my phone right now and looked at all the wireless networks, I bet there's probably one in there I could connect to. If not, are you going to notice a free coffee shop Wi-Fi nearby? No. Why not? For instance, right? Flexibility is the name of the game with this. There's no one way to use it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

No. You've still got to have a wireless network it can connect to, or you bring one in. Okay. If I open my phone right now and looked at all the wireless networks, I bet there's probably one in there I could connect to. If not, are you going to notice a free coffee shop Wi-Fi nearby? No. Why not? For instance, right? Flexibility is the name of the game with this. There's no one way to use it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare

No. You've still got to have a wireless network it can connect to, or you bring one in. Okay. If I open my phone right now and looked at all the wireless networks, I bet there's probably one in there I could connect to. If not, are you going to notice a free coffee shop Wi-Fi nearby? No. Why not? For instance, right? Flexibility is the name of the game with this. There's no one way to use it.