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Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops
- Subject: Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops
- From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
- Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 10:53:47 +0300
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 07:09:36PM -0700, Razer wrote:
> H/t @Liberationtech @twitter
> https://twitter.com/Liberationtech/status/862849917806661634
> >
> > The audio driver installed on some HP laptops includes a feature that
> > could best be described as a keylogger, which records all the user's
> > keystrokes and saves the information to a local file, accessible to
> > anyone or any third-party software or malware that knows where to look.
> >
Someone should audit the other direction: does the keyboard driver logs
the microphone?