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April 4, 2008

USB malware increases

Filed under: News, Hacking, Data Theft — Matt Fisher @ 12:27 pm

According to new research, around ten percent of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, to attack and propagate.

The research found that the most common type of malware on USB sticks was INF/Autorun, a generic identification for malware that tries to use the autorun.inf file as a way of compromising a PC.

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