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Stealth USB Hides Encrypted Partition Behind Decoy Drive

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Rootkit Labs has developed an open-source stealth USB drive called Phantom Drive that conceals an encrypted partition behind a standard 8GB decoy drive. The device appears as a regular USB stick until a user creates a specific text file containing a password. This action triggers the firmware to unlock a hidden partition secured with AES-256 encryption, using a key derived from the password and the microcontroller's unique ID. The firmware intercepts the password before it's written to storage, adding a delay to deter brute-force attacks and allowing the USB to spoof various vendor IDs. AI

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Stealth USB Hides Encrypted Partition Behind Decoy Drive

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Hassam Nasir ·

    Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

    This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlocks a hidden partition when you create a text file with the password inside. The password is never actually written to storage; it's instead intercepted by the custom firmware and copied into the microcontroller's SRAM during h…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears … This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlo

    Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears … This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlocks a hidden partition when you create a text file with the password inside. The password is never actually written to s…

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