USBee Malware Turns Regular USB Connectors into Data-Stealing Weapons
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3. September 2016 Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University in Israel have discovered a novel method of using USB connectors to steal data from air-gapped computers without the need of special radio-transmitting hardware mounted on the USB. Their attack scenario relies on infecting a computer with malware they’ve created called USBee. An NSA cyber-weapon inspired the research Researchers said that NSA cyber-weapons inspired their research, namely, the COTTONMOUTH[/IMG] hardware implant included in a catalog of NSA hacking tools leaked by Edward Snowden via the DerSpiegel German newspaper. USBee is superior to COTTONMOUTH because it does not need an NSA agent to smuggle a modified USB connector/dongle/thu […]