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Stealthy USB Trojan hides in portable applications, targets air-gapped systems

A Trojan program is being distributed through USB drives and seems to be designed for stealing information from air-gapped computers. The new Trojan has been dubbed USB Thief by security researchers from antivirus firm ESET. It’s copied to such installations as a plug-in or DLL (dynamic link library) and is then executed along with those applications. The malware is a multi-stage malware program, made up of three executables, each loading the next component in the chain, two encrypted configuration files and a final payload.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3047818/stealthy-usb-trojan-hides-in-portable-applications-targets-air-gapped-systems.html

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