Results for “"usb"”
1–10 of 144 articles
Best match · title matches first
The Register
24 days ago
US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case
ransomware hospital — both words
"data breach" — exact phrase
malware -android — exclude a word
(apple OR microsoft) patch — either company, plus patch
ransom* — a wildcard match
Searches article titles, summaries, keywords and sources. Filters use publication dates.
1–10 of 144 articles
Best match · title matches first
The Register
The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case
Bleeping Computer
Security researchers have disclosed new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to trigger Windows into installing vulnerable or insecure vendor software and gain SYSTEM privileges. [...]
The Hacker News
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supported Plug and Play or low-level USB redirection is enabled; Microsoft says that
Graham Cluley
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The Hacker News
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple's A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it. Affected devices will carry this flaw for as long as they stay in use. This is not a remote attack. It requires
Bleeping Computer
Threat actors targeting cryptocurrency wallets have been distributing clipboard-stealing malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor network to conceal communication. [...]
The Hacker News
Microsoft has disclosed details of a Windows-based cryptocurrency clipper campaign that has targeted users since February 2026. "The clipper in this campaign relies on Windows Script Host and ActiveX-driven logic to launch a bundled Tor proxy and poll a hidden-service C2 [command-and-control] server," the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said in an analysis published Tuesday. "It
The Register
When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider
Dark Reading
Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster — a story from a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making column with its author Steve Stasiukonis, Dark Reading senior editor Becky Bracken, and Dark Reading's editor-in-chief Kelly Jackson Higgins.
The Register
Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.…