Metasploit and Arduino - the deadly combination

Arduino-based microcontroller boards are tiny and amazing pieces of hardware that can act as a lethal weapon when it comes to penetration testing. A few of the Arduino boards support keyboard and mouse libraries, which means that they can act as an HID device.

Metasploit and Arduino - the deadly combination

Therefore, these little Arduino boards can stealthily perform human actions such as typing keys, moving and clicking with a mouse, and many other things. In this section, we will emulate an Arduino Pro Micro board as a keyboard to download and execute our malicious payload from the remote site. However, these little boards do not have enough ...

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