"The bad guys are intentionally developing new flavors of malware designed to propagate through USB devices," said Gunter Ollmann, chief security strategist for IBM's ISS security division. ![]() The fact that USB thumb drives are being used by so many people makes them an attractive target for virus writers. Floppy disks were the culprit in the early 1990s, followed by CDs. We've seen this before with portable external storage devices. Department of Defense has temporarily banned the use of thumb drives, CDs, and other removable storage devices because of the spread of the Agent.bzt virus, a variant of the SillyFDC worm, according to Wired. The US-CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) issued a warning on Thursday that malicious code is increasingly propagating via USB flash drive devices. ![]() USB thumb drives are convenient, popular and often free-and they're spreading viruses like sailors on shore leave.*
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