Keylogging Hardware Devices

Keylogging Hardware Device (keystroke recording device, hardware keylogger, etc.) is a tiny hardware device that can be attached in between a keyboard and a computer or built into the keyboard case. It keeps a record of all keystrokes typed on the keyboard.

Hardware keyloggers are now easy to buy - and the prices are affordable. A cheap one costs about $50, so everybody can buy a keylogger - and use it to get hold of somebody else's information. If there is an opportunity, there always will be one to use it.

It is very easy to attach a keylogger to the victim's PC. Anybody can do it - a colleague, a cleaner, any visitor if you turn away for a moment… It takes just a couple of seconds to plug a keylogger in; and the perpetrator needn't do anything else but to come back to collect this tiny device, loaded with all the keystrokes made on the particular PC. Needless to say that there can be private, classified or even top-secret information among these recorded keystrokes.

The process of recording is totally transparent to the end user - in other words, no software can spot a working hardware keylogger. Unlike software keyloggers, Keylogging Hardware Devices do not require any software on the victim's PC and leave no traces afterwards.

The picture shows how simple it is to attach a keylogger to the victims PC and how well disguised they are. Some other makes of hardware keyloggers can be even more covert than these ones!

External Keystroke Recording Devices

External Hardware KeyLoggers are placed between a keyboard and a computer. They need no batteries, no special software installed, and they'll work on any PC.

This External Hardware Keylogger is disguised to look exactly like an EMC Balun or other PC equipment.

Internal Keystroke Recording Devices

Internal Hardware Keyloggers are the hardest to spot. In this case a hardware keylogger module is built directly into the keyboard.

The Internal Hardware Keylogger is so well-disguised that it is impossible to notice in a PC keyboard.

A little heat-shrink-covered bundle spliced into the keyboard's cable.

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