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Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware

Posted by samzenpus on from the bugs-everywhere dept.

itwbennett writes "Antivirus firm Sophos acquired a passel of USB sticks lost by commuters on trains in the Greater Sydney metro area at an auction organized by the Rail Corporation New South Wales. The company analyzed 50 USB sticks and found that not a single one was encrypted and 33 of them were infected with at least one type of malware."

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  1. Lost? Riiigghtt... by wjcofkc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can see someone "loosing" a couple in the employee smoking area outside of a bank or large tech company. Lost, sure they were.

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  2. CityRail = CityFail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is more likely that the USB's got infected when someone at CityRail plugged them in to see if there was 'anything good' stored.

  3. Re:What do you expect .. by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was thinking of a different self-selecting sample- the script kiddies willing to spread malware-infected USB sticks around in public to see which computers phone home.

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