In 2024, cyber defenders began shifting from reactive incident response toward proactive detection of hardware-level threats — particularly attacks using disguised USB devices that impersonate trusted human input peripherals.
These attacks don’t rely on malware — they emulate a legitimate keyboard, injecting rapid-fire commands the moment they’re connected. Because operating systems inherently trust keyboards, these intrusions can bypass traditional antivirus, EDR and even zero-trust policies if not specifically prepared for HID-level exploitation.
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