Dangerous New USB Trojan Discovered
The Internet and the growing interconnectedness of networks have made it incredibly easy for threat actors to deliver and propagate malware. But not all cyber threats are Internet-borne.
Take USB Thief, new malware sample that researchers at security firm ESET recently discovered. As its name implies, the malware is completely USB-borne, meaning it spreads exclusively through devices that plug into the USB port of computers.
This data-stealing Trojan could be used for targeted attacks on systems disconnected from the Internet. Some obvious examples of air-gapped systems that would fall into this category, and that would be of interest to the authors of USB Thief, would be industrial control systems controlling equipment at critical infrastructure facilities including power plants, nuclear facilities, shipyards, and elsewhere.
