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Criminals Distribute Infected USB Sticks In Parking Lot
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..."
What do you think? Chances are was just for Windoze!
Despite you "Windoze" comment frankly it wouldn't matter what OS you are running because when you are dealing with a targeted attack such as this the enemy knows what you have and therefor can simply tune the attack to the OS, just as we saw with stuxnet.
If you think Linux has a magical immunity you might want to read how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps which shows with just a little social engineering its really not hard to target Linux just as the malware writers target Windows and OSX now. Or did you think android runs on Windows? In the end if you know what your target is running you can simply shape the payload to target that infrastructure, its really not that hard to do.
I wonder what they have that the malware guys figured it was worth the expense of such a targeted attack? perhaps a rival corp wanting to get ahead of the game? it would be interesting to see where this all leads, as you usually don't hear of malware writers going to this much trouble for a single target, so whatever they have must be worth a lot to someone.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
This, of course, is how Obama got elected.
Alright, I'll bite you Anonymous Coward. Would you rather have had McCain / Palin?
I'll answer for the AC... you bet your ASS I would... ANYbody BUT OBLOWME.. Since ./ is a liberal cesspool, please feel free to downmod me.... You KNOW you want to.....
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
You can't argue with hairyfeet. The guy's a hopeless MS junkie, his entire business model depends on Windows and the trashed computers users keep bringing him as a result.
If a genuinely secure and stable OS became popular, he'd be homeless and starving.