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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn’t consider the behavior a vulnerability. Operating system makers take many steps to prevent their wares from accepting commands from remote devices.

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Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn’t consider the behavior a vulnerability. Operating system makers take many steps to prevent their wares from accepting commands from remote devices. The safeguards, designed to thwart malicious attacks, typically require hackers to jump through all kinds of hoops to bypass the measures. But what if remote code execution were as simple as being within Bluetooth range of a speaker connected to the targeted device?

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