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Researches Detail 17 Malicious Frameworks Used to Attack Air-Gapped Networks

Four different malicious frameworks designed to attack air-gapped networks were detected in the first half of 2020 alone, bringing the total number of such toolkits to 17 and offering adversaries a pathway to cyber espionage and exfiltrate classified information. “All frameworks are designed to perform some form of espionage, [and] all the frameworks used USB […]

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USBee — Malware That Uses Any USB Drive To Hack Isolated Computers

An ordinary USB drive (A) is sending information to a receiver (B) Short Bytes: A team of Israel’s Ben-Gurion University has developed a software-only exploit named USBee. It allows the attacker to sniff data from air-gapped computers using USB drives. USBee transmits data at 80 bytes per second. Once transmitted, the attacker needs a GNU-radio-powered receiver and […]

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