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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices (arstechnica.com)
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[–] capital 6 points 2 months ago

The basic flow of the attack is, first, infecting an Internet-connected device through a means ESET and Kaspersky have been unable to determine. Next, the infected computer infects any external drives that get inserted. When the infected drive is plugged into an air-gapped system, it collects and stores data of interest. Last, when the drive is inserted into the Internet-connected device, the data is transferred to an attacker-controlled server.

Guys, storage devices move data from one machine to another. /pikachuface