Next time you find a foreign USB lying around, think twice before plugging it into your computer. A pair of security researchers named Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell demonstrated before an audience at ...

Security experts are warning of never-before-seen malware, dubbed Stuxnet, that spreads via USB drives, infecting PCs via an unknown -- aka zero-day -- Windows vulnerability. Unfortunately, the attack ...

IBM broke the news to AusCERT delegates in an e-mail, alerting them that the USB sticks the company handed out at the conference might have been infected with the virus. "At the AusCERT conference ...

A recently discovered worm that researchers call LittleDrifter has been spreading over USB drives infecting systems in multiple countries as part of a campaign from the Gamaredon state-sponsored ...

Officials at a water plant in U.S. Midwest recently got alarmed when a maintenance technician traveling in Russia innocently ran remote diagnostics on the plant back in the U.S. Was the foreign ...

USB storage devices are handy. I’ve got them on my keychain, my wife wears one as a bracelet – I’ve even got a watch that has a USB plug and can hold 512MB of data! They’ve become the de facto ...

USB-borne malware can infect your industrial equipment unless you take the proper precautions, says Honeywell. TechRepublic Get the web's best business technology news, tutorials, reviews, trends, and ...

Findings Show 70% of Phishing Attachments Used Non-Traditional Formats, USB Malware Rose 27%, and 40% of Azure Intrusions Involved Layered Persistence REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ ...

USB malware drops have been around forever, and as always, we do not recommend you randomly plug in a flash drive you find out in the wild. However, this initial access method is still working for ...

The March 2025 Malware Protection Test evaluated the ability of 19 leading security products to detect and prevent infections from a wide range of malware threats. Unlike other tests focusing solely ...