Report warns, USB drives pose a grave data security concern for enterprises

Removable media like USBs or pen drives continues to be a serious data breach concern for various industries as this year, 52 percent of cyber threats were specifically designed to use such removable media, up from 32 per cent in 2021, a new report claimed. According to the ‘2022 Honeywell Industrial Cybersecurity USB Threat Report,’ the threat of USB-borne malware continues to be a serious concern and the rise shows that the threats designed to use removable media have reached a dangerously high level.
In its fourth year, the report claims that the threats designed to establish remote access capabilities remained steady at 51 percent, while the number of threats designed specifically to target industrial control systems increased slightly year over year.
“Adversaries are deliberately leveraging removable media as an initial attack vector to establish remote connectivity, exfiltrate data, and establish command and control,” said Jeff Zindel, vice president and general manager, Honeywell Connected Enterprise Cybersecurity.

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