Hackers can exploit USB to steal data

Just drag a file from your computer to your own USB flash drive, connect the external hard drive or a webcam for video calls over the internet. That’s what many people do every day – and take a greater security risk than previously believed. So far, USB sticks have been primarily associated with the spread of harmful viruses.

But now researchers from the Berlin data security company Security Research Labs have now shown how sniffer software can hide on tiny chips in the USB devices. This allows them to be controlled remotely, unnoticed, and there’s nothing users can do about it. It’s a horror scenario that could herald a new type of hacker attack.

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and there’s nothing users can do about it

Unplug the USB?

Cymek said:

and there’s nothing users can do about it

Unplug the USB?

Too late

It’s taken 80 years for someone to invent the Trojan horse equivalent for electronic computers.

>It’s taken 80 years for someone to invent the Trojan horse equivalent for electronic computers.

they’ve been around for tens thousands of years for wetware

transition said:

>It’s taken 80 years for someone to invent the Trojan horse equivalent for electronic computers.

they’ve been around for tens thousands of years for wetware

Most if not all malware is avoidable, a significant percentage of its social engineered for the clickety clickers