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Social-Engineer Toolkit v0.6.1 Teensy USB HID Attack Vector

ID: abcae429-8521-55b2-be3b-56d6a32d0e3c

STIX ID: report--abcae429-8521-55b2-be3b-56d6a32d0e3c

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2025-03-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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The note explains how Teensy Arduino-compatible devices can fully emulate a USB keyboard to bypass autorun protections and, when used with the Social-Engineer Toolkit and Metasploit payloads, can deploy a WSCRIPT/PowerShell stager that downloads and executes a backdoor on the target system.

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