A new breed of USB trojan, which can automatically remove critical data from a PC or network was exposed recently at the IDG Endpoint Security show in London. Slurp.exe 2.0 in combination with tweaked U3 USB drives can copy and remove sensitive information from a network within minutes, by just being inserted into a USB port.
“As tales of high profile security breaches such as the 26.5 million US war veterans’ personal details and account details of 243,000 Hotels.com customers continue to dominate the headlines there’s no doubt that data theft has become a major for concern across the globe,” said Abe Usher. “Centennial DeviceWall proved to be a foolproof way to prevent the inappropriate use of portable devices in a network environment. It was very easy to set up and once running, completely blocked devices running Slurp.exe 2.0.”
Source: IT Observer
