Buddy, did you even read the article before commenting??
"andrewaylett:
But it's not an autorun vulnerability, that wouldn't be newsworthy -- the problem is that simply mounting the filesystem exploits bugs in the filesystem driver."
"andrewaylett:
But it's not an autorun vulnerability, that wouldn't be newsworthy -- the problem is that simply mounting the filesystem exploits bugs in the filesystem driver."
Did you watch the video before retorting?
In the video he has to run "ntfs_exploit.exe" in order to exploit the vulnerability. That's why a local account, as well as the ability to insert the USB dongle, is needed in order to leverage the exploit. So simply mounting the filesystem is not sufficient to trigger the exploit
To "trigger" the vulnerability is to deliver your exploit code. This USB stick can be inserted into any Windows 7 system and, voila you have your rootkit on that machine, without any user interaction required. No running of .exe files anywhere. You could put some pictures on the usb drive for the user to look at while his system is compromised. (Rootkitted is that a word? Backdoored is.)
Social engineering only gets you both if you can autorun the executable upon insertion of the usb stick.
I would be more demure. This way, it wouldn't look this bad when I'm wrong.