Never Trust a Found USB Drive, Black Hat Demo Shows Why

Posted by penguinist on Aug 5, 2016 2:21 PM EDT
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Does dropping an infected USB drive in a parking work when it comes to a hacker luring its prey into a digital trap? The answer is a resounding yes. At Black Hat USA, security researcher Elie Bursztein shared the results of an experiment where he dropped 297 USB drives with phone-home capabilities on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.

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