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Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
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Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11


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Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine.The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supported Plug and Play or low-level USB redirection is enabled; Microsoft says that

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