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Super Sweet Kon-Boot Demo in GIFs

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Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Threat Score
35/100

Date Published: 2017-04-11

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

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This blog post demonstrates how an adversary with physical access can use Kon‑Boot on a USB drive to bypass a locked computer's authentication (either by bypassing the password prompt or creating a new local admin user), enabling data access and exfiltration with minimal visible traces.

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