Italian Businesses Hit by Weaponized USBs Spreading Cryptojacking Malware

A financially motivated threat actor known as UNC4990 is leveraging weaponized USB devices as an initial infection vector to target organizations in Italy. Google-owned Mandiant said the attacks single out multiple industries, including health, transportation, construction, and logistics. "UNC499...

TetrisPhantom: Cyber Espionage via Secure USBs Targets APAC Governments

Government entities in the Asia-Pacific APAC region are the target of a long-running cyber espionage campaign dubbed TetrisPhantom. "The attacker covertly spied on and harvested sensitive data from APAC government entities by exploiting a particular type of secure USB drive, protected by hardware...

New malware tool can steal files from airgapped PCs using USBs

By Sudais Asif The malware reveals the growing capabilities of cybercriminals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New malware tool can steal files from airgapped PCs using USBs...

Hackers sending malware infected USBs with Best Buy Gift Cards

By Waqas Researchers maintain that this USB drive is an Arduino microcontroller ATMEGA32U4 and infected with GRIFFON malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers sending malware infected USBs with Best Buy Gift Cards...

Supermicro Bug Could Let 'Virtual USBs' Take Over Corporate Servers

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers...

Police distributed malware infected USBs as cybersecurity quiz prizes

By Carolina The Police are supposed to protect and serve but Taiwanese police This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Police distributed malware infected USBs as cybersecurity quiz prizes...

Crosstalk Flaw: Hackers can steal sensitive data with unsecure USBs

By Waqas University of Adelaide School of Computer Science’ research team led This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crosstalk Flaw: Hackers can steal sensitive data with unsecure USBs...

NO BOOT FOR YOU ! Will Windows 8 Kill Live CDs and USBs?

In January 2012, Microsoft confirmed to PC manufacturers that they must enable Secure Boot by default on PCs to be "Certified for Windows 8". The purpose of Secure Boot is to put an end to computer viruses that sneak between the hardware and the operating system. These viruses, also known as...