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Kiosk/POS Breakout Keys in Windows

ID: 49edc7d5-8729-5834-a856-533bb8877572

STIX ID: report--49edc7d5-8729-5834-a856-533bb8877572

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2025-01-13

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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This report documents a collection of Windows keyboard shortcuts and breakout techniques attackers or testers can use to bypass captive kiosk and POS shells (e.g., using Task Manager, Explorer windows, File Open/Save dialogs and accessibility features) to run commands or access files; it also includes registry entries and mitigation notes for hardening kiosks against these escape vectors.

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