ESET Threat Blog: Are your USB flash drives an infectious malware delivery system?

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BY STEPHEN COBB
December 10, 2012

USB flash drives continue to present a serious challenge to information security, for consumers and companies alike. You will be aware of this if you read our recent article on the Win32/Pronny worm, just one example of a piece of malicious software that is "in the wild" and actively seeking to spread via USB flash drives, doing damage and stealing data as it goes. Unfortunately, although the ability to block malicious code infection from USB flash drives has been around for as long as the drive themselves, there is one chink in traditional defenses that has only recently been addressed: protecting these drives from malware infections by unprotected hosts.

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