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Criminals Distribute Infected USB Sticks In Parking Lot

Posted by Unknown on from the our-dear-friend-social-engineering dept.

New submitter sabri writes "The Dutch news-site Elsevier is reporting that cybercriminals attempted to steal data from a multinational chemicals company by 'losing' spyware-infected USB sticks on the company's parking lot. Their attempt failed as one of the employees who found the stick dropped it off at the company's IT department, who then found the spyware and issued a warning. So next time, don't expect to find someone's dirty pictures on a USB stick you just found..."

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  1. Cool, free thumb drive! by toygeek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[usbdrive]

    voila, free thumb drive, malware free.

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  2. Re:Thats what virtual machines are for. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We had a couple turn out in our parking lot that when plugged in showed up as a hub that was connected to a usb drive, cd drive and a keyboard. The last one was tricky. After being plugged in, it would install the devices one by one and try to run them, if that didn't work, it registered as a keyboard and tried to put the input of windows key+r then iexplore websiteURL. That last one took me by surpise, as I'd never seen it before.

  3. Re:Expensive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    dud example

    There are no examples, and the "5 easy steps" from the linked page haven't worked for years.

    One of the reasons Linux is more secure is that the community responds far more quickly to potential threats.

    Hairyfeet always gets to +5 with votes from the Apple/Windows crowd here, but he's never been able to show a single current instance of actual Linux malware in the wild. Much like the 235 patents, it's always threats from the future or the past.