But how much of a threat are keyloggers to organizations? Laptops, computers and smartphones are all at risk of keylogging tools, enabling hackers to turn our most commonly used devices into snooping machines. Today, our technologies have advanced beyond typewriters-and keylogging tools have evolved alongside them. These keyloggers went undetected for eight years and were only discovered following a tip from a US ally in 1983. To plant this spyware, Soviet Intelligence secretly intercepted US IBM Selectric typewriters whilst in transit, and installed on them electromechanical implants that would record every key pressed and transmit this information back to them in real-time. Keyloggers, or, keystroke loggers, are one of the oldest types of malware still in existence today they were first used by the Soviet Union to spy on US diplomats during the Cold War.
