{"id":231383,"date":"2026-04-05T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/hid-omg-detect-linux-driver-in-development-to-detect-malicious-hid-devices\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:15:10","slug":"hid-omg-detect-linux-driver-in-development-to-detect-malicious-hid-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/hid-omg-detect-linux-driver-in-development-to-detect-malicious-hid-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID\">hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-05 06:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive monitoring to watch out for any malicious HID devices being connected to the system.<\/p>\n<p>The hid-omg-detect kernel module attempts to detect any malicious HID devices like specially crafted keyboards and mice . Detection is currently based on factors like low keystroke timing entropy, immediate post-enumeration typing, and known suspicious vendor\/product IDs and HID descriptor anomalies.\n<\/p>\n<p>With this driver there is a configurable threshold and if such a device is believed to be malicious, it would emit a warning and paired with the likes of USB Guard in user-space could then block the device. The hid-omg-detect driver doesn&#8217;t block any devices itself nor modify HID events or delay them.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=183&#038;image=logisys_mice_size_med\" alt=\"Example USB mice as HID devices\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting driver addition currently under review and consideration on the mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>Those concerned about potentially malicious HID devices being connected to your systems or just curious about hid-omg-detect can find all the details on this driver via the patch series on the Linux kernel mailing list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/hid-omg-detect-Malicious-HID Publish Date: 2026-04-05 06:44:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=183&image=logisys_mice_size","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-231383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231385,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231383\/revisions\/231385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}