Industrial organizations spend a lot of time and money on high-tech walls designed to keep out malware. But lately hackers have been deploying a simple tool to breach those walls: the humble USB drive ...

A team of researchers have created a proof-of-concept piece of malware that can give attackers control of USB smart card readers attached to an infected Windows computer over the Internet. The malware ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — AVAST Software has detected a growing number of malware attacks targeting the AutoRun function in Windows and plug-in USB devices. Researchers found that, of the 700,000 ...

How to protect your industrial facilities from USB-based malware Your email has been sent Industrial organizations face security threats not only on their networks but across their factories and ...

Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to steal your data. As people become more aware of common threats like phishing links, fake websites, fraudulent emails and impersonation scams, ...

IBM broke the news to AusCERT delegates in an e-mail, alerting them that the USB sticks the company handed out at the conference might have been infected with the virus. "At the AusCERT conference ...

Like many people, I have usb flash drive which has several portable anti-malware programs on it.<BR><BR>However, how does one protect the drive itself from getting infected since the drive will most ...

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant recently discovered that a threat actor known as UNC4990 uses USB devices to inject malware payloads. Based on the investigation, it was found that they have been ...

Next time you find a foreign USB lying around, think twice before plugging it into your computer. A pair of security researchers named Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell demonstrated before an audience at ...

Security experts are warning of never-before-seen malware, dubbed Stuxnet, that spreads via USB drives, infecting PCs via an unknown -- aka zero-day -- Windows vulnerability. Unfortunately, the attack ...

Activity dubbed ‘Raspberry Robin’ uses Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to communicate with threat actors and execute nefarious commands. Wormable malware dubbed Raspberry ...