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How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched (arstechnica.com)
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Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn’t consider the behavior a vulnerability.

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 20 points 1 day ago

Not really. You can't just walk by with a cell phone to configure a flash drive that is already plugged in and convert it to an attack vector. The method of setting up the attack device is the shocking part. You don't even have you push a pairing button on the speaker to connect to it.