{"id":126644,"date":"2021-08-22T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/razer-bug-lets-you-become-a-windows-10-admin-by-plugging-in-a-mouse"},"modified":"2021-08-22T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T02:22:37","slug":"razer-bug-lets-you-become-a-windows-10-admin-by-plugging-in-a-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/razer-bug-lets-you-become-a-windows-10-admin-by-plugging-in-a-mouse","title":{"rendered":"Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/razer-bug-lets-you-become-a-windows-10-admin-by-plugging-in-a-mouse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Razer Synapse zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed on Twitter, allowing you to gain Windows admin privileges simply by plugging in a Razer mouse or keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Razer is a very popular computer peripherals manufacturer known for its gaming mouses and keyboards.<\/p>\n<p>When plugging in a Razer device into Windows 10 or Windows 11 the operating system will automatically download and begin installing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.razer.com\/synapse-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Razer Synapse software<\/a> on the computer. Razer Synapse is software that allows users to configure their hardware devices, set up macros, or map buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Razer Synapse zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed on Twitter, allowing you to gain Windows admin privileges simply by plugging in a Razer mouse or keyboard. Razer is a very popular computer peripherals manufacturer known for its gaming mouses and keyboards. When plugging in a Razer device into Windows 10 or Windows 11 the operating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}