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Forum Security-X => News => Discussion démarrée par: igor51 le septembre 25, 2018, 13:00:32
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USB threats from malware to miners
In 2016, researchers from the University of Illinois left 297 unlabelled USB flash drives around the university campus to see what would happen. 98% of the dropped drives were picked up by staff and students, and at least half were plugged into a computer in order to view the content. For a hacker trying to infect a computer network, those are pretty irresistible odds.
Source: USB threats from malware to miners (https://securelist.com/usb-threats-from-malware-to-miners/87989/)