U.S. military drone control systems were infected with Windows USB worms last year. The Air Force acknowledged that malware had been detected on portable hard drives in use at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The majority of the country’s unmanned military drones are remotely flown from the base, and used for missions in Afghanistan and other war zones. The malware was detected on a stand-alone mission support network using a Windows-based operating system, read a statement released by the Air Force. But Air Force said that the malware hadn’t “affected Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) operations””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/air-force-drone-controllers-embrace-linux-but-why-