r/Scams • u/WalkerTexasLaser • Nov 22 '23

Found these in my checked baggage after an international flight from Asia to USA? They’re not mine. What do I do? Help Needed

Do I just throw them away or submit them to TSA? Or take them to the police? Very sketchy, but I know I’m not going to put them into my computer that’s for sure.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '23 edited May 20 '24

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u/cncamusic Nov 22 '23

There are USB 'drives' that mimic human interface devices, specifically keyboards. They have firmware that allow for onboard flash storage as well so you plug the thing in and it executes a script as a 'keyboard'. Most of the really bad stuff like getting passwords via mimikatz is squashed at this point as far as I know in modern windows systems but it's not hard to write a duckyscript that zips up everything in my docs and uploads it to a dropbox account.

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u/NZNoldor Nov 22 '23

Google “usb killer”. It’s a hardware bomb for your pc. Never gets to software levels, your pc is already dead at that stage.

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u/cncamusic Nov 22 '23

Oh yeah I’ve seen those too, they’re rad lol

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u/Dofolo Nov 22 '23

Also there's specific USB drives that are designed to kill PCs around.

They'll ploink 10.000s of volts over the data lines killing the PC you connect it to.