Inspiration: We're both interested in the cybersecurity field and wanted to know first hand how keyloggers worked
What it does: it logs key strokes and saves them to a text document and sends the text document to a set email
How I built it: VScode using python 3.8
Challenges I ran into: getting the email to send
Accomplishments that I'm proud of: revisiting python after a long time of not using it and loving how clean it was
What I learned: keyloggers are very easily caught by antiviruses, even simple ones like Windows Defender and getting them to not be caught requires either an extreme set of specific code or having direct access to user's computer
What's next for Keylogger1: update code to properly perform sending email function and setting specific code that allows it to slip by antiviruses. After that is successfully done, we plan to work on finding the vulnerabilities and feeding it to antiviruses so they can learn to catch advanced ey loggers with a higher success margin.
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