New virus targets PCs from USB drives
According to Sophos, a new Worm has emerged which uses USB sticks or similar removable media devices as its main form of propagation. The so-called SillyFD-AA worm copies itself to a USB stick and then creates an autorun file which is triggered every time the host device is plugged into a PC.
This method of Worm transmission is designed to bypass increasingly-tough gateway or perimeter defenses by hitting the PC directly. As such, companies that don’t manage device connections to their corporate PCs are especially at risk.
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