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How many times you think a state government uses this vs the thousands of cameras, warrants, a well placed USB stick on the desk, and monitoring the war thunder forums?
I get what you're saying, but in the grand scene of things, even at the state level, these are not how state agencies are spying on you in practical terms.
The effort to just get this executable running undetected in the background for such a low value attack just doesn't make sense to spend resources on.
I think they meant international espionage, not spying on the population. That’s at least what I would expect for this.
And everything I said applies. Especially war thunder forums.
There are higher success rates with more common and easy to achieve tactics.
This might be used on 1 or 2 people. Might.
This kind of stuff is SIGNIFICANTLY more alluring when you're dealing with an air gapped pc.
Interdict the mouse and modify it so that it uses the needed software over usb, pair with a Software Defined Radio device and a specially modified usb plug to exfiltrate any data picked up, the user is none the wiser, you've grabbed whatever info you're after, and you never even need to physically access the air gapped pc.
It's elaborate but if you're targeting an air gapped pc or network then elaborate is necessarily going to be the name of the game.
If you introduce specially modified hardware, why not just add a microphone?
If you're looking for something amiss you'd notice a microphone. Unless you really, really, really knew your shit something like this could be essentially invisible even if you disassembled it.