Trying to remember a bit more of it, but wasn’t the usb stick a rubber ducky? I mean it could possibly trigger some alarms, but to note that I don’t think it would register as a flash drive. In short you can program them and make them appear to the computer however you want. (IE it could appear as a keyboard, and rather than copying a file from storage, and rather than copying a script off of itself, it could say open cmd or powershell and effectively run the commands itself (as if they are being typed really fast, rather than actually a script). Companies typically don’t log keyboards being plugged in.
IIRC, there was a plot where Elliot needed to break his drug dealer out of jail, and they left USB sticks in the parking lot of the police station, but when the cop plugged it in, it was obvious that it was malicious (command prompt pop up) because they didn’t have time to make it hidden, so that thread didn’t end up working out.
Trying to remember a bit more of it, but wasn’t the usb stick a rubber ducky? I mean it could possibly trigger some alarms, but to note that I don’t think it would register as a flash drive. In short you can program them and make them appear to the computer however you want. (IE it could appear as a keyboard, and rather than copying a file from storage, and rather than copying a script off of itself, it could say open cmd or powershell and effectively run the commands itself (as if they are being typed really fast, rather than actually a script). Companies typically don’t log keyboards being plugged in.
IIRC, there was a plot where Elliot needed to break his drug dealer out of jail, and they left USB sticks in the parking lot of the police station, but when the cop plugged it in, it was obvious that it was malicious (command prompt pop up) because they didn’t have time to make it hidden, so that thread didn’t end up working out.
They even mentioned metasploit