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USB threats from malware to miners
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2010-2568 | Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Windows via Malicious Shortcut (LNK) Parsing | — | 90% | KEV | — KEV |
From the original article
10 min read at securelist.com
In 2016, researchers from the University of Illinois left 297 unlabelled USB flash drives around the university campus to see what would happen. 98% of the dropped drives were picked up by staff and students, and at least half were plugged into a computer in order to view the content. For a hacker trying to infect a computer network, those are pretty irresistible odds.
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